Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end.… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann Copy Share
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also… — Horace Mann Copy Share
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is… — Horace Mann Copy Share
The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of… — Horace Mann Copy Share
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. — Horace Mann Copy Share
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always… — Horace Mann Copy Share
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it… — Horace Mann Copy Share
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. — Horace Mann Copy Share
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the… — Horace Mann Copy Share
