Horace Mann17 definitions
Horace Mann
Horace Mann
1796 – 1859
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Affectation (n.) hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
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Character (n.) is what god and the angels know of us.
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Education (n.) is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
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Education (n.) is our only political safety.
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Education (n.) is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
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Education (n.) is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
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Genius (n.) may conceive, but patient labor must consummate.
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Habit (n.) is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
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Ideality (n.) is the avant-courier of the mind.
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Jail (n.) is the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former.
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Man (n.) 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.
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Manners (n.) easily and rapidly matures into morals.
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Observation (n.) is activity of both eyes and ears.