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. – 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
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. – Tryon Edwards
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. – Tryon Edwards
For — believe me — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into unchartered seas! – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), The Gay Science, “Book Four: St Januarius