Tryon Edwards

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than read more

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be read more

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.