Horace Mann
14 quotations
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Avoid witicisms at the expense of others.
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.