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

- Orville Dewey

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

- Orville Dewey

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 thousan…

- Orville Dewey

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 …

- Orville Dewey

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

- Orville Dewey

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, a…

- Orville Dewey

Politeness is practical Christianity.

- Orville Dewey

Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal to eat and dr…

- Orville Dewey

Occupied people are not unhappy people.

- Orville Dewey