The public is wiser than the wisest critic. George Bancroft More Quotes by George Bancroft More Quotes From George Bancroft Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. George Bancroft libertine luxury lap Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. George Bancroft truth character life The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. George Bancroft real rain fall The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct. George Bancroft natural-instinct flower life If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. George Bancroft decision truth mind Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. George Bancroft hype deception honesty Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. George Bancroft errors mirrors life 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 more first interest ignorance
