Quotes by : James Fenimore Cooper

...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

... As for me, I taught the lad the real character of a rifle; and well has he paid me for it. I have....

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors but when it comes to a question....

I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher....

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.....

No! You stay alive! Submit, do you hear? You're strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs!....

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess....

These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

Tis open before your eyes," returned the scout; "and he who knows it is not a niggard of its use. I have....

Principles become modified in practise by facts.