List of Tryon Edwards Quotes

Let Your Holidays Be Associated With Great Public Events, And They May Be The Life Of Patriotism As Well As A Source Of Relaxation And Personal Employment.

Whoever In Prayer Can Say, 'our Father', Acknowledges And Should Feel The Brotherhood Of The Whole Race Of Mankind.

To Be Good, We Must Do Good; And By Doing Good We Take A Sure Means Of Being Good, As The Use And Exercise Of The Muscles Increase Their Power.

If Rich Men Would Remember That Shrouds Have No Pockets, They Would, While Living, Share Their Wealth With Their Children, And Give For The Good Of Others, And So Know The Highest Pleasure Wealth Can Give.

Conscience Is Merely Our Own Judgment Of The Right Or Wrong Of Our Actions, And So Can Never Be A Safe Guide Unless Enlightened By The Word Of God.

We Never Do Evil So Thoroughly And Heartily As When Led To It By An Honest But Perverted, Because Mistaken, Conscience.

Appreciation, Whether Of Nature, Or Books, Or Art, Or Men, Depends Very Much On Temperament. What Is Beauty Or Genius Or Greatness To One, Is Far From Being So To Another.

Right Actions For The Future Are The Best Apologies For Wrong Ones In The Past - The Best Evidence Of Regret For Them That We Can Offer, Or The World Receive.

Hell Is Truth Seen Too Lateduty Neglected In Its Season.

To Possess Money Is Very Well; It May Be A Valuable Servant; To Be Possessed By It Is To Be Possessed By The Devil, And One Of The Meanest And Worst Kind Of Devils.

Some Persons Are Exaggerators By Temperament. They Do Not Mean Untruth, But Their Feelings Are Strong, And Their Imaginations Vivid, So That Their Statements Are Largely Discounted By Those Of Calm Judgment And Cooler Temperament. They Do Not Realize That We Always Weaken What We Exaggerate.

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, And Like The Star To The Wise Men Of Old, Ever Guiding Him Nearer And Nearer To Perfection.