You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much. — 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 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 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
Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which… — 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
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
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
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as… — 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
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
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 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
