Horace Mann Quotes

"He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little."
-Horace Mann

"Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even."
-Horace Mann

"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."
-Horace Mann in Work quotes.

"Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money."
-Horace Mann in Money quotes.

"There is measure in all things."
-Horace Mann

"To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom."
-Horace Mann

"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
-Horace Mann in Books quotes.

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."
-Horace Mann

"Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man."
-Horace Mann

"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
-Horace Mann

"I will not add another word."
-Horace Mann

"Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet."
-Horace Mann in Poetry quotes.

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
-Horace Mann

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."
-Horace Mann

"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them."
-Horace Mann in Books quotes.

"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."
-Horace Mann

"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."
-Horace Mann

"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment."
-Horace Mann

"Whatever advice you give, be brief."
-Horace Mann

"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago."
-Horace Mann

"Faults are soon copied."
-Horace Mann

"One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions."
-Horace Mann

"The covetous man is ever in want."
-Horace Mann

"No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation."
-Horace Mann in Art quotes.

"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."
-Horace Mann

"With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)."
-Horace Mann in Silence quotes.

"Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise."
-Horace Mann