Horace Mann Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• A house without books is like a room without windows.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

• 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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

  Horace Mann

  Love, Children, Growing Up

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

• 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.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Book, Mean

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

• Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

  Horace Mann

  Book, Wheat Fields, Land

  "Horace Mann at Antioch".

• Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

  Horace Mann

  Book, Giving, House

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

• Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

  Horace Mann

  Spring, Rain, Book

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.17

• Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

  Horace Mann

  Jesus, Book, Cities

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.192

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