33 Quotes by George Bancroft

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.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.