Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Horace Mann

Horace Mann US educator (1796 - 1859)


Horace Mann -
- Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann - address at Antioch College, 1859
- Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann -
- If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Horace Mann -
- 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.

Horace Mann -
- To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann -
- 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.

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