Quote

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

James F. Cooper

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James F. Cooper
Indigenous
Superstitions
Ocean
Quality
Seems
Superstition

More quotes by James F. Cooper

Image
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
James F. Cooper
Image
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
James F. Cooper
Image
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.
James F. Cooper
Image
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
James F. Cooper
Image
It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.
James F. Cooper
Image
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
James F. Cooper
Image
It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
James F. Cooper
Image
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
James F. Cooper
Image
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
James F. Cooper
Image
The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.
James F. Cooper
Image
A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.
James F. Cooper
Image
We are all human, and all do wrong.
James F. Cooper
Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James F. Cooper
Image
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
James F. Cooper
Image
As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.
James F. Cooper
Image
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property if we have property, we must have its rights if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.
James F. Cooper
Image
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
James F. Cooper
Image
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
James F. Cooper
Image
Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.
James F. Cooper
Image
We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.
James F. Cooper