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.

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?

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

You can be very wild and still be very wise.