"Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is t..."
- James Fenimore Cooper
"... As for me, I taught the lad the real character of a rifle; and well has he paid me for it. I have fought at his side in many a bloody scrimmage; and so long as I could hear the crack of his piece ..."
"All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than any existence of ..."
"History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness."
"Tis open before your eyes," returned the scout; "and he who knows it is not a niggard of its use. I have heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I kno..."
"Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness."
"Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!"
"You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!"
"Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?"
"Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons."