Tryon Edwards

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

— Tryon Edwards

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

— Tryon Edwards

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

— Tryon Edwards

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

— Tryon Edwards

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

— Tryon Edwards

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

— Tryon Edwards

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to…

— Tryon Edwards

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

— Tryon Edwards

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness…

— Tryon Edwards

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but…

— Tryon Edwards

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a…

— Tryon Edwards

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source…

— Tryon Edwards

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by…

— Tryon Edwards

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more,…

— Tryon Edwards

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and…

— Tryon Edwards

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its…

— Tryon Edwards

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to…

— Tryon Edwards

“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. One who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.”

— Tryon Edwards

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be…

— Tryon Edwards

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget…

— Tryon Edwards

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker.…

— Tryon Edwards

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that…

— Tryon Edwards

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that,…

— Tryon Edwards

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the…

— Tryon Edwards