“A man without conscience is but a poor creature...” — James Fenimore Cooper Conscience Copy Share Image
“...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.” — James Fenimore Cooper Greatness Copy Share Image
“I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature.” — James Fenimore Cooper Envy Copy Share Image
“...for flowers that will bloom in a garden will die on a heath...” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“That of all the 'oracies (aristocracy and democracy included) hypocrisy is the most flourishing.” — James Fenimore Cooper Flourishing Copy Share Image
“The deer that goes too often to the lick meets the hunter at last!” — James Fenimore Cooper Deer Copy Share Image
“Patience is the greatest of virtues in a woodsman.” — James Fenimore Cooper Patience Copy Share Image
“If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.” — James Fenimore Cooper Language Copy Share Image
“Mankind twist and turn the rules of the Lord, to suit their own wickedness, when their devilish cunning has had too much… — James Fenimore Cooper Nature of man Copy Share Image
“...that dog is more to be trusted than many a Christian man; for he never forgets a friend, and loves the hand… — James Fenimore Cooper Animal 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… — 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 Education Copy Share Image
“Even the robin and the martin come back, year after year, to their old nests; shall a woman be less true hearted… — James Fenimore Cooper Bird Copy Share Image
“...every period of life has its necessities, and at forty-seven it's just as well to trust a little to the head.” — James Fenimore Cooper Life Copy Share Image
“Tis a strange calling!’ muttered Hawkeye, with an inward laugh, ‘to go through life, like a catbird, mocking all the ups and… — James Fenimore Cooper Comedy Copy Share Image
I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to… — James Fenimore Cooper Being 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… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“Ah's me! if we could be what what we wish to be, instead of being only what we are, there would be… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will… — James Fenimore Cooper Adventure 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… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“Our orthodox friends need not be told that all merit in this world is comparative; and once for all, we desire to… — James Fenimore Cooper American literature Copy Share Image
“Judith:"And where, then, is your sweetheart, Deerslayer?" Deerslayer: "She's in the forest, Judith - hanging from the boughs of the trees, in… — James Fenimore Cooper Judith Copy Share Image
“..that all-seeing eye which reads the heart, could not fail to discriminate between the living and the dead, and the gentle soul… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“...for though the quiet of deep solitude reigned in that vast and nearly boundless forest, nature was speaking with her thousand tongues… — James Fenimore Cooper Language Copy Share Image
“The arches of the woods, even at high noon, cast their sombre shadows on the spot, which the brilliant rays of the… — James Fenimore Cooper Light and shadow 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… — James Fenimore Cooper Alone with god Copy Share Image
“Men who, in their hearts, really care no more for mankind than See-wise cared for the fish, lift their voices in shouts… — James Fenimore Cooper Domestic violence 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… — James Fenimore Cooper Religion Copy Share Image
“... As for me, I taught the lad the real character of a rifle; and well has he paid me for it.… — James Fenimore Cooper Business 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… — James Fenimore Cooper Change 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 Fenimore Cooper History 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… — James Fenimore Cooper America Copy Share Image
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at… — 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
“In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should… — James Fenimore Cooper Fear Copy Share Image
“The woods are but the ears of the Almighty, the air is his breath, and the light of the sun is little… — James Fenimore Cooper Breath Copy Share Image
“Life is sweet, even to the aged; and, for that matter, I've known some that seemed to set much store by it… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.” — James Fenimore Cooper Evil Copy Share Image
“My eyes are true and as delicate as a hummingbird's in the day; but they are nothing worth boasting of by starlight.” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
