Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
About George Bancroft
George Bancroftwas an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state of Massachusetts and at the national and international levels.
During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
More quotes from George Bancroft
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)