High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. – Tryon Edwards
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. – Tryon Edwards
To rejoice in anothers prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate anothers grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. – Tryon Edwards
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War. – Edmund White