Quotes from Horace Mann

Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.

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.

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

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.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

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

There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.

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

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

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

The great aim of human life

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

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

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

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

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.

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