“Ah's me! if we could be what what we wish to be, instead of being only what we are, there would be a great difference in our characters and knowledge and appearance. One may be rude and coarse and ignorant,… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who… — 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
“Then as to churches, they are good, I suppose, else wouldn't good men uphold' em. But they are not altogether necessary. They call 'em… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“Tis an ancient and sacred tie that binds man to his nation; neither can it be severed without infamy.” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
