You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.
Horace MannJails 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.
Horace MannTemptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.
Horace Mann