17 Quotes by Orville Dewey

Labor is man’s greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.

Politeness is practical Christianity.

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

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!

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

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

The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of their departure from this life, that they and we shall live in a future state forever.

The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and generous fruitage.