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Famous James F. Cooper Quotes
“The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.”
“Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.”
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.”
“Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.”
“Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?”
“The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.”
“Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.”
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.”
“What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?”
“The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.”
“I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.”