223 Quotes by Horace Mann

A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

The most important ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with other people.

The earth endured Christ’s ministry only three years; – not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

Observation – activity of both eyes and ears.

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.

Of all “rights” which command attention at the present time among us, woman’s rights seem to take precedence.

We put things in order – God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

Benevolence is a world of itself – a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.