Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.
Horace MannScientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
Horace MannHe who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
Horace MannPatient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
Horace Mann