Quote #31
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
More from Horace Mann
- It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
- 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.
- Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
- 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…
- 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.
- Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
- If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
- Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they…