Horace Mann

Lost — Yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

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.

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

Dynasties and governments used to be attacked and defended by arms; now the attack and the defence are mainly carried on by types.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing

Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are …

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.