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
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled. — 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
Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence,… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence… — 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
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
