He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. — 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
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it… — 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
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument. — 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