--- title: "16 May Quotes By Horace Mann" description: "16 May quotes by Horace Mann. Plus more from Horace Mann and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abf/horace-mann-2022_cost_you-may-be-liberal-in-your-praise-where_887620.png" --- > [You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/you-may-be-liberal-in-your-praise-where-praise-is-due-it-costs/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abf/horace-mann-2022_cost_you-may-be-liberal-in-your-praise-where_887620.png) > [Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/genius-may-conceive-but-patient-labor-must-consummate/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b2/horace-mann-2022_conceive_genius-may-conceive-but-patient-labor-mu_180505.png) > [You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/you-may-as-well-borrow-a-person-s-money-as-his-time/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c7/horace-mann-2022_borrow_you-may-as-well-borrow-a-person-s-money_1663078.png) > [Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/knowledge-is-but-an-instrument-which-the-profligate-and-the/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccc/horace-mann-2022_brave_knowledge-is-but-an-instrument-which-the_2332991.png) > [Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/keep-one-thing-in-view-forever-the-truth-and-if-you-do-this-though-it/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ea/horace-mann-2022_forever_keep-one-thing-in-view-forever-the-truth_501111.png) > [There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/there-may-be-frugality-which-is-not-economy-a-community-that/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/996/horace-mann-2022_bread_there-may-be-frugality-which-is-not-econ_293823.png) > [Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/unfaithfulness-in-the-keeping-of-an-appointment-is-an-act-of-clear/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d7/horace-mann-2022_clear_unfaithfulness-in-the-keeping-of-an-appo_2484206.png) > [The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/the-false-man-is-more-false-to-himself-than-to-any-one-else-he-may/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/084/horace-mann-2022_chiefs_the-false-man-is-more-false-to-himself-t_550330.png) > [It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/it-is-well-when-the-wise-and-the-learned-discover-new-truths-but-how-2/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/horace-mann-2022_discovering_it-is-well-when-the-wise-and-the-learned_3094273.jpg) > [Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/temptation-is-a-fearful-word-it-indicates-the-beginning-of-a-possible/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/horace-mann-2022_action_temptation-is-a-fearful-word-it-indicate_898182.png) > [It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/it-is-well-when-the-wise-and-the-learned-discover-new-truths-but-how/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70e/horace-mann-2022_discovering_it-is-well-when-the-wise-and-the-learned_795616.png) > [Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/good-books-are-to-the-young-mind-what-the-warming-sun-and-the/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/horace-mann-2022_bless_good-books-are-to-the-young-mind-what-th_1905059.jpg) > [So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/so-in-the-infinitely-nobler-battle-in-which-you-are-engaged-against/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2aa/horace-mann-2022_abuse_so-in-the-infinitely-nobler-battle-in-wh_107080.jpg) > [In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/in-our-country-and-in-our-times-no-man-is-worthy-the-honored-name-of/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/387/horace-mann-2022_administration_in-our-country-and-in-our-times-no-man-i_159515.png) > [Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/without-undervaluing-any-other-human-agency-it-may-be-safely-affirmed/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d2/horace-mann-2022_agency_without-undervaluing-any-other-human-age_1158559.png) > [So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/so-multifarious-are-the-different-classes-of-truths-and-so/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/horace-mann-2022_balls_so-multifarious-are-the-different-classe_2993321.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## More by Horace Mann > [When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/when-will-society-like-a-mother-take-care-of-all-her-children/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/the-earth-endured-christ-s-ministry-only-three-years-not-three-weeks/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/if-evil-is-inevitable-how-are-the-wicked-accountable-nay-why-do-we/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/the-soul-of-the-truly-benevolent-man-does-not-seem-to-reside-much-in/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/the-pulpit-only-teaches-to-be-honest-the-market-place-trains-to/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/on-entering-this-world-our-starting-point-is-ignorance-none-however/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/so-in-the-infinitely-nobler-battle-in-which-you-are-engaged-against/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/we-conceive-of-immortality-as-having-a-beginning-but-no-end-but-we/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/in-our-country-and-in-our-times-no-man-is-worthy-the-honored-name-of/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/genius-may-conceive-but-patient-labor-must-consummate/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/even-the-choicest-literature-should-be-taken-as-the-condiment-and-not/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/of-all-rights-which-command-attention-at-the-present-time-among-us/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/after-a-child-has-arrived-at-the-legal-age-for-attending-school/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/let-the-common-school-be-expanded-to-its-capabilities-let-it-be/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) > [Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/resistance-to-improvement-contradicts-the-noblest-instincts-of-the/) [Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/horace-mann/#itemlist", "name": "16 May Quotes By Horace Mann", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Horace Mann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/you-may-be-liberal-in-your-praise-where-praise-is-due-it-costs/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abf/horace-mann-2022_cost_you-may-be-liberal-in-your-praise-where_887620.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abf/horace-mann-2022_cost_you-may-be-liberal-in-your-praise-where_887620.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abf/horace-mann-2022_cost_you-may-be-liberal-in-your-praise-where_887620.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; 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