Quotes from Orville Dewey

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

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

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.

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