Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. – Horace Mann
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. – Horace Mann
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. – Horace Mann
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. – Joseph Conrad