Tryon Edwards

"True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us."

- Tryon Edwards

"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."

- Tryon Edwards

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

- Tryon Edwards

"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."

- Tryon Edwards

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

- Tryon Edwards

"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."

- Tryon Edwards