Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

— Horace Mann

Education is our only political safety. Outside this ark all is deluge.

— Horace Mann

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

— Horace Mann

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

— Horace Mann

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

— Horace Mann

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

— Horace Mann

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

— Horace Mann

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

— Horace Mann

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

Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

— Horace Mann