Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Horace Mann
A house without books is like a room without windows.
Horace Mann
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
Horace Mann
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.