Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to… — 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
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on… — 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
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
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought… — 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
