All Horace Mann Quotes
- Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. Break
- Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the… Complement
- Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. All
- When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin… Angel
- Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. Easily
- Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. Charity
- Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. Air
- To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. Charity
- Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. Act
- Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. Alone
- It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. Act
- If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. Accountable
- Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies… Adversities
- Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from… Benevolence
- Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will… Day
- A house without books is like a room without windows. Attitude
- Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on… Ago
- We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause. All
- Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. Breeds
- Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! Any
- Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects. Causes
- You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. Borrow
- The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual… Apply
- It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered amongst the multitudes.… Addition
- Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. Addition