Horace MannThinkers

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Character is what god and the angels know of us.

Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate.

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

Jail is the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by walor.

Manners is that which easily and rapidly matures into morals.

Observation is activity of both eyes and ears.