131 Quotes by Tryon Edwards

To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.

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

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws – a thing which can never be demonstrated.

To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny.

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