Tryon Edwards
12 quotations
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.