223 Quotes by Horace Mann

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

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.

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

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

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it