Horace Mann

“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.”

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

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

“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 then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”

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

“Evil and good are God's right hand and left.”

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

“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.”