Theodore Parker
Pride is both a virtue and a vice.Collection: Pride
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.Collection: Truth
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.Collection: Beauty
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.Collection: Mean
The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.Collection: Fashion
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.Collection: Science