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. — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind? — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
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… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves. — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image