Quotes by Horace Mann

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

“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.”

“Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.”

“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. ...”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”