Horace Mann Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”

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

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

“Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.”

“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.”

“When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.”

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

“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”

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