Horace Mann Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

  Horace Mann

  Weed, Men, Hands

• So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!

  Horace Mann

  Men, Class, Names

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.61

• The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

  Horace Mann

  Jesus, Real, Character

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.221

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