James F. Cooper
James F. Cooper
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 September 1789
CountryUnited States of America
James F. Cooper quotes about
advice debt young
Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
names needs asks
It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
humans
We are all human, and all do wrong.
variables mutation language
Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.
taught-us justice sublime
Christ , in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.
spiritual order preparation
As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.
art people ignorant
The Americans ... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.
spring men white
God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.
blessing men ungrateful
One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.
cutting sea tree
What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?
fancy woe apathy
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.
warrior blood sight
The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.
american-novelist exhibit form masses men public substitute usual vice
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
aim citizen freedom happiness individuality leaving left means order political pursue render rights truly
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.