If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

- Horace Mann

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

- Horace Mann

A house without books is like a room without windows.

- Horace Mann

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

- Horace Mann

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

- Horace Mann

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

- Horace Mann

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that…

- Horace Mann

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

- Horace Mann

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

- Horace Mann