George Bancroft
George Bancroft

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

George Bancroft
George Bancroft

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft
George Bancroft

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

George Bancroft
George Bancroft

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

George Bancroft
George Bancroft

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

George Bancroft
George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

George Bancroft
George Bancroft

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

George Bancroft
George Bancroft

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

George Bancroft
George Bancroft

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

George Bancroft
George Bancroft

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

George Bancroft
George Bancroft

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.