Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of… — James F. Cooper Aristocracy Copy Share Image
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is. — James F. Cooper Astronomy Copy Share Image
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal… — James F. Cooper All things Copy Share Image
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. — James F. Cooper Agree 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 Conscience Copy Share Image
Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often… — James F. Cooper Arise 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
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. — James F. Cooper Active Copy Share Image
New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but… — James F. Cooper Belonging 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
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
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in… — James F. Cooper Adversity 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
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
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
The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye. — James F. Cooper Book 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
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses… — James F. Cooper Democracies 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
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest,… — James F. Cooper Business Copy Share Image
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim… — James F. Cooper Aim Copy Share Image
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been… — James F. Cooper Break Copy Share Image
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been… — James F. Cooper Break Copy Share Image
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to… — James F. Cooper Antiquity Copy Share Image
One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that… — James F. Cooper Blessing Copy Share Image
