George Bancroft Quotes

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

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

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

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.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.