Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. – 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
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
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. – Horace Mann