Horace Mann Quotes

Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

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

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

A HOUSE WITHOUT BOOKS IS LIKE A ROOM WITHOUT WINDOWS

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.

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

all the members of society have a direct interest in the manners of each of its individuals, because each one is a radiating point, the center of a circle which he fills with pleasure or annoyance, not only for those who voluntarily enter it but for those, who, in the promiscuous movements of society, are caught within its circumference.