Horace Mann Quotes & Quotations

Horace Mann Quotes

» I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

» A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

» Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

» 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.

» 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. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

» It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.

» To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

» When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

» 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.

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

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