Cold Quote by 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 is also…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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 you always…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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 warp nor…

— Horace Mann

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

— Horace Mann