Horace Mann Quotes

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

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

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

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

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.

Man … has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean’s roar.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.