“Our orthodox friends need not be told that all merit in this world is comparative; and once for all, we desire to say that where anything which involves qualities or character is asserted, we must be understood to mean "under… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with erecting temples… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“The deer that goes too often to the lick meets the hunter at last!” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“The air, the water, and the ground are free gifts to man, and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels.… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“The tree blossoms, and bears its fruit, which falls, rots, withers, and even the seed is lost! Go, count the rings of the oak… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“When men speak, they should say that which does not go in at one side of the head and out at the other. Their… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“I look upon the redmen to be quite as human as we are ourselves, Hurry. They have their gifts, and their religion, it's true;… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“I want no thunder or lightning to remind me of my God, nor am I as apt to bethink on most of all His… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“I have attended church-service in the garrisons, and tried hard...to join in the prayers...but never could raise within me the solemn feelings and true… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
