Theodore Parker Quotes

The miser robs himself.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

Avarice is always poor.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray.

Never call a man a fool; borrow from him

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.