Horace Mann

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

— Horace Mann

The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

— Horace Mann

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but…

— Horace Mann

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great…

— 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…

— Horace Mann

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

— Horace Mann

So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may…

— Horace Mann

We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end.…

— Horace Mann

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest…

— Horace Mann

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

— Horace Mann

Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the…

— Horace Mann

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

— 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…

— Horace Mann

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and…

— Horace Mann

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging…

— Horace Mann

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or…

— Horace Mann

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread…

— Horace Mann

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a…

— Horace Mann

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a…

— Horace Mann

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

— Horace Mann

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much…

— Horace Mann

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

— Horace Mann

In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.

— Horace Mann

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

— Horace Mann

The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in…

— Horace Mann