George Bancroft

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

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

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

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?