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
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. Horace Mann
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Horace Mann
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. Horace Mann
Observation – activity of both eyes and ears. Horace Mann
One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master’s command. Horace Mann
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion. Horace Mann