James F. Cooper
James F. Cooper
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 September 1789
CountryUnited States of America
James F. Cooper quotes about
stars taught-us taught
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.
political individuality liberty
Individuality is the aim of political liberty
christian suffering ease
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
motivational friendship spring
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.
business visionaries world
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
freedom abuse matter
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
freedom democracy principles
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.
time imagination events
On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.
time imagination long
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.
government office long
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power
ambition simplicity abuse
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
lonely nature earth-day
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
fire journalism excellent
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
fate decay all-things
It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.