Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.
Horace MannIt is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Horace MannOn entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.
Horace MannDoing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
Horace MannThe object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Horace MannUnder the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
Horace Mann