George Bancroft

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

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

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.