Horace Mann Inspirational Quotations

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

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.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.