Quotes by Mann, Horace

It is well to think well. It is divine to act well. >>

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that ar >>

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the grea >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each tho >>

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplatio >>

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written >>

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. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Mann, Horace