We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
Interpretation
Helping others contributes to our own well-being and personal growth.
Horace Mann's quote emphasizes the intrinsic value of altruism, suggesting that engaging in acts of kindness and support for others not only benefits them but also enriches our own lives. This idea reflects the interconnectedness of humanity, where the welfare of others is inherently tied to our own happiness and fulfillment.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one might say, 'As Horace Mann wisely pointed out, we do ourselves the most good doing something for others.'
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.
Full fathom five thy father lies;_x000D_ Of his bones are coral made;_x000D_ Those are pearls that were his eyes;_x000D_ Nothing of him that doth fade,_x000D_ But doth suffer a sea-change_x000D_ Into something rich and strange._x000D_ Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:_x000D_ Ding-dong._x000D_ Hark! now I hear them β Ding-dong, bell.
There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
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