Tryon Edwards

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, read more

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use read more

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we read more

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.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the read more

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