Horace Mann

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

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
Horace Mann - address at Antioch College, 1859
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Jails 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.

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