My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness,… — 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
