223 Quotes by Horace Mann

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.