95 Quotes by James Fenimore Cooper

The deer that goes too often to the lick meets the hunter at last!

The sudden falling of the trees are the most dangerous of our accidents in the forest, for they are not to be foreseen, being impelled by no winds, nor any extraneous or visible cause, against which we can guard.

The gifts of our colors may be different, but God has so placed us as to journey in the same path.

We live in a world of endless transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true.

Come, friend; you are welcome, though your notions are a little blinded with reading too many books.

And where, then, is your sweetheart, Deerslayer?” “She’s in the forest, Judith – hanging from the boughs of the trees, in a soft rain – in the dew on the open grass – the clouds that float about in the blue heavens – the birds that sing in the woods – the sweet springs where I slake my thirst – and in all the other glorious gifts that come from God’s Providence!

The turf shall be my fragrant shrine; My temple, Lord! that arch of thine; My censer’s breath the mountain airs, And silent thoughts my only prayers. MOORE.

In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.

The physical marvels of the universe produce little more reflection than the profoundest moral truths. A million of eyes shall pass over the firmament, on a cloudless night, and not a hundred minds shall be filled with a proper sense of the power of the dread Being that created all that is there – not a hundred hearts glow with the adoration that such an appeal to the senses and understanding ought naturally to produce.