James F. Cooper
James F. Cooper
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 September 1789
CountryUnited States of America
powerful men class
Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.
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.
battle bargains
Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
character men selfishness
How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.
ocean quality superstitions
Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.
stars taught-us taught
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.
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.
fancy woe apathy
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.
principles visionaries way
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
country lying rights
Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.
truth scandal being-true
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
agency evil principles
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
new-york thinking united-states
New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.