223 Quotes by Horace Mann

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

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.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .