Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean. — James F. Cooper Excellence Copy Share Image
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is. — James F. Cooper Astronomy Copy Share Image
On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. — James F. Cooper Creativity 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
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
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
What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea? — James F. Cooper 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
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it… — James F. Cooper Differences 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 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 Copy Share Image
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War… — James F. Cooper History Copy Share Image
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in… — James F. Cooper Christian Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Democracies 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 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a… — James F. Cooper Business 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 Copy Share Image
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. — James F. Cooper Character Copy Share Image
The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye. — James F. Cooper Book 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 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
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts… — James F. Cooper Beast Copy Share Image
