Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for… — 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
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
Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic… — 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
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may… — 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
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
