James F. Cooper Quotations | Page 2

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

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

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.

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

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.