Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. – 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
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. – Horace Mann
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. – Horace Mann
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. Nay, and when I walk alone in a beautiful Orchard, if my Thoughts are some part of the Time taken up with strange Occurrences, I some part of the Time call them back again to my Walk, or to the Orchard, to the Sweetness of the Solitude, and to my self. – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience,” translated from French by Charles Cotton