Horace Mann Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

  Horace Mann

  Education, People, Republic

• Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

  Horace Mann

  Angel, Goal, Pathways

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.10

• The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us;– they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted by the refining alchemy of education into mental and spiritual treasures; ...and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Spiritual, Character

  "Report of an Educational Tour in Germany, and Parts of Great Britain and Ireland: Being Part of the Seventh Annual Report of Horace Mann".

• Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

  Horace Mann

  Doe, Three, Charity

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.214

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