Theodore Parker — American Theologian born on August 24, 1810, died on May 10, 1860

Theodore Parker was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and quotations which he popularized would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr... (wikipedia)

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Politics is the science of urgencies.
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.