Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both. – 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
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spiders web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. – Tryon Edwards
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,