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.
Tryon EdwardsSome 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 EdwardsMy books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
Tryon EdwardsTo possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
Tryon Edwards