223 Quotes by Horace Mann

Praise begets emulation, – a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.

Love – that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home – sometimes burns at unholy altars.

Teaching isn’t one-tenth as effective as training.

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown, – or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

The most ignorant are the most conceited.

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

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.

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.