Tryon Edwards

"To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better."

"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."

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

"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."

"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven."

"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."