Horace Mann

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.”

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

“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

“Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”

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

“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”

“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.”

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”

“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”