Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. - (Edwards, Tryon - Accuracy)

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. - (Edwards, Tryon - Accuracy)

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old. - (Edwards, Tryon - Age and Aging)

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up. - (Edwards, Tryon - Age and Aging)

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. - (Edwards, Tryon - AIDS)

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better. - (Edwards, Tryon - Anger)

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events? - (Edwards, Tryon - Anxiety)

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. - (Edwards, Tryon - Books - Reading)

Never be so brief as to become obscure. - (Edwards, Tryon - Brevity)

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. - (Edwards, Tryon - Choice)

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

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. - (Edwards, Tryon - Contentment)

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. - (Edwards, Tryon - Credulity)

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. - (Edwards, Tryon - Critics and Criticism)

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. - (Edwards, Tryon - Destiny)