James F. Cooper
James F. Cooper
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 September 1789
CountryUnited States of America
James F. Cooper quotes about
apt aspect assumes effects events fancy far history human imagination incidents lived produce seen travelled
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.
motivation inspiration ignorance
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
hope fancy humans
Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.
evil
There are evils worse than death,
appreciated exception particular
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
civilization rights inseparable
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.
mind lasts ability
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.
law names interesting
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.
sunshine past roots
The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.
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.
time imagination events
On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.