Quotes from Horace Mann (1796–1859)

In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.

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

The rich and poor are but different ventricles of the same heart of humanity.

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