The Leatherstocking Tales Quotes

“if a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an undersized opinion of himself.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Complete Leatherstocking Tales: All 5 Books

“One, and she was the more juvenile in her appearance, though both were young, permitted glimpses of her dazzling complexion, fair golden hair, and bright blue eyes, to be caught, as she artlessly suffered the morning air to blow aside the green veil which descended low from her beaver.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Complete Leatherstocking Tales: All 5 Books

“Tis true, the Delawares call me Deerslayer, but it's not so much because I'm pretty fatal with the venison as because that while I kill so many bucks and does, I've never yet taken the life of a fellow-creatur'. They say their traditions do not tell of another who had shed so much blood of animals that had not shed the blood of man.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Complete Leatherstocking Tales: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie

“The mind is apt to make some efforts to prove the fitness between its qualities and the condition of its owner, though it may often fail, and render that ridiculous which was only hated before.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Leatherstocking Tales: With 19 Illustrations and Free Online Audio Files.

“Then he was wrong, Hurry; very wrong. A man can enjoy plunder peaceably nowhere.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Complete Leatherstocking Tales: All 5 Books

“Indian made no other answer than by dropping his paddle into the water, and urging forward the canoe. As he held the office of directing its course, his resolution was sufficiently indicated by the movement. The whole party now plied their paddles vigorously, and in a very few moments they had reached a point whence they might command an entire view of the northern shore of”
― James Fenimore Cooper, LEATHERSTOCKING TALES – Complete Collection: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers & The Prairie

“The orator, or the politician, who can produce such a state of things, is commonly popular with his contemporaries, however he may be treated by posterity. All perceived that more was meant than was uttered, and each one believed that the hidden meaning was precisely such as his own faculties enabled him to understand, or his own wishes led him to anticipate.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Complete Leatherstocking Tales: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie

“for the Hurons were in no degree exempt from that governing principle of nature, which induces man to value his gifts precisely in the degree that they are appreciated by others.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Complete Leatherstocking Tales: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie