What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.
Theodore ParkerWhat sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
Theodore ParkerIt is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.
Theodore ParkerThe miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.
Theodore Parker