George Bancroft Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by George Bancroft
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“The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. - George Bancroft,”
Friendship Quotes
Source: History of the United States--Wm. Penn's Treaty with the Indians
“It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.”
Government Quotes
Source: History of the United States (vol. III, ch. VI)
“Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.”
Conscience Quotes
“Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.”
Neighbors Quotes
“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.”
All about love Quotes
“Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.”
Conscience Quotes
“Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.”
Dishonesty Quotes
“Avarice is the vice of declining years.”
Finance and economics Quotes
“Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.”
Gossip Quotes
“The public is wiser than the wisest critic.”
Public speaking Quotes