Quote #29
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
More from Horace Mann
- If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
- It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
- If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
- It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
- If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it
- Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
- I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
- Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as v…