To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike. — Quoted

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“To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.”

Horace Mann · Fear

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Horace Mann

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Death

Horace Mann

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Loneliness

Horace Mann

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Education

Horace Mann

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Truth