223 Quotes by Horace Mann

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

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

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 which is better than life.