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.

It is well to think well it is divine to act well.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

The devil tempts men through their ambition their cupidity or their appetite until he comes to the profane swearer whom he clutches without any reward.

Wealth which breeds idleness ... is only a sort of human oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worm's banquet.

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

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.

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.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

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.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

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.

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.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

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.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

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.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

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.

Do not think of knocking out another persons 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.

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.

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.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more for they may save from that which is worse than death as well as bless with that whic

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.