Orville Dewey Quotes

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

Politeness is practical Christianity.

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

Occupied people are not unhappy people.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

Truth is the root of all the charities.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

Godliness is practical religion.

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.