If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or… — 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
Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered… — 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
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or… — 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
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
