120 Quotes by James F. Cooper

We are all human, and all do wrong.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized...

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

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.