Top 185 Quotes & Sayings by Horace Mann - Page 4

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.