Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean. — James F. Cooper Excellence Copy Share Image
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. — James F. Cooper Being true Copy Share Image
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. — James F. Cooper Character Copy Share Image
On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. — James F. Cooper Creativity Copy Share Image
The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble. — James F. Cooper Blood Copy Share Image
The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye. — James F. Cooper Book Copy Share Image
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night. — James F. Cooper Death Copy Share Image
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the… — James F. Cooper Ability Copy Share Image
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed. — James F. Cooper Affair Copy Share Image
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal. — James F. Cooper Apathy Copy Share Image
A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth. — James F. Cooper Beings Copy Share Image
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. — James F. Cooper Abuse Copy Share Image
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark? — James F. Cooper Dark Copy Share Image
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces… — James F. Cooper Brave Copy Share Image
The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day,"… — James F. Cooper Air 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… — James F. Cooper Air Copy Share Image
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to… — James F. Cooper Agents Copy Share Image
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends… — James F. Cooper Active Copy Share Image
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between… — James F. Cooper Appreciate Copy Share Image
As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher… — James F. Cooper Balance Copy Share Image
God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at… — James F. Cooper Deer Copy Share Image
A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of… — James F. Cooper Book Copy Share Image
As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be… — James F. Cooper Barrels Copy Share Image
The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball,… — James F. Cooper Animal Copy Share Image
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports… — James F. Cooper Action Copy Share Image
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is… — James F. Cooper Agency Copy Share Image
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with… — James F. Cooper Absence Copy Share Image
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with… — James F. Cooper America Copy Share Image
No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now… — James F. Cooper Activity Copy Share Image
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The… — James F. Cooper Cant Copy Share Image
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to… — James F. Cooper Adverse Copy Share Image
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. — James F. Cooper All things Copy Share Image
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is. — James F. Cooper Astronomy Copy Share Image
It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience! — James F. Cooper Better man Copy Share Image
What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea? — James F. Cooper Cutting Copy Share Image
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. — James F. Cooper Bears Copy Share Image
The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference. — James F. Cooper Expanse Copy Share Image
