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
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
– George Bancroft
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
– George Bancroft
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
– George Bancroft
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
– 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
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
– George Bancroft
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
– George Bancroft
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.