Horace Mann Quotes and Quotations
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
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.
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.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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.
Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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.