Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
Horace MannIf any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Horace MannA teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
Horace MannTo-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.
Horace Mann