A house without books is like a room without windows.

— 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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

— Horace Mann

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

— Horace Mann

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

— Horace Mann

Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.

— Horace Mann

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

— Horace Mann

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

— Horace Mann

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

— 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

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

— Horace Mann