Horace Mann

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality read more

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.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children read more

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's read more

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.