Quotes from Horace Mann

They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

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

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

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

Love must be the same in all worlds.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

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.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.