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
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
