131 Quotes by Tryon Edwards

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.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

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

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

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.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

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