James Fenimore Cooper

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

"Is it justice to make evil and then punish for it?"

"'Tis grand! 'tis solemn! 'tis an education of itself to look upon!"

"One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to ren…"

"Let a man get once fairly possessed of any peculiar notion, whether it be on religion, political economy, morals, politics, arts, or anything else, and he sees little beside his beloved principle, whi…"

"When the white man dies, he thinks he is at peace; but the red-men know how to torture even the ghosts of their enemies."

"Parson Amen's speculations on this interesting subject, although this may happen to be the first occasion on which he has ever heard the practice of taking scalps justified by Scripture. Viewed in a p…"

"It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience."