Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
-- Horace Mann
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 the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
-- Horace Mann
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
-- Horace Mann
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
-- Horace Mann
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
-- Horace Mann
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
-- Horace Mann
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
-- Horace Mann
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
-- Horace Mann
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins
-- Horace Mann
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
-- Horace Mann
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
-- Horace Mann
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
-- Horace Mann
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men
-- Horace Mann
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 pride or fear.
-- Horace Mann
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
-- Horace Mann
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
-- Horace Mann
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
-- Horace Mann
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it
-- Horace Mann
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
-- Horace Mann
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
-- Horace Mann
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
-- Horace Mann
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
-- Horace Mann
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 former.
-- Horace Mann
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
-- Horace Mann
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
-- Horace Mann
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
-- Horace Mann
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
-- Horace Mann
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 often bound up in them.
-- Horace Mann
Observation
-- Horace Mann
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 make itself felt at the end of the year.
-- Horace Mann
Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
-- Horace Mann
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
-- Horace Mann
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
-- Horace Mann
Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
-- Horace Mann
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.
-- Horace Mann
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are
-- Horace Mann
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 to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
-- Horace Mann
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who a right to know it all, but let all you tell be truth.
-- Horace Mann
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