Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. – The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. – Tryon Edwards
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. – Tryon Edwards
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. – Tryon Edwards
To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is better. – Tryon Edwards
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying. – Tryon Edwards
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. – Tryon Edwards
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. – Tryon Edwards
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. – Tryon Edwards
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost. – Tryon Edwards
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. – Tryon Edwards
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish. – Tryon Edwards
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. – Tryon Edwards
He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow. – Tryon Edwards
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy. – Tryon Edwards
Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life? – Tryon Edwards
Facts are God’s arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. – 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
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. – Tryon Edwards
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves – our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all. – Tryon Edwards
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. – Tryon Edwards
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