Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of man… - Horace Mann

How strong that idea of improvement in the human mind, which is the companion, if it be not the condition of genius!— that ideality, I mean, which always runs ahead of actuality. Achievement is only the eminence whence we survey something better to be achieved. Ideality is only the avant-courier of the mind, and where that, in a healthy and normal state, goes, I hold it to be a prophecy that realization can follow.

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men — the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.