Tryon Edwards

“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 of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.”

“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.”

“Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.”

“Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.”

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

“What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.”

“Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!”