223 Quotes by Horace Mann

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

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.

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.