George Bancroft Quotes

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.