Horace Mann Quotes

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

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.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.

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

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

The best teachers teach from the heart, not the book.