Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
To rejoice in another prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
