Horace Mann Quotes:
Ocupation: American Politician
Life: May 4, 1796 - August 2, 1859
Birthday: May 4
Death: August 2
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet.
source: Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.49
topic: Country, Men, Oysters, Heiress, Succulents, Slothfulness
