The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. James F. Cooper More Quotes by James F. Cooper More Quotes From James F. Cooper Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal. James F. Cooper woe fancy apathy No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. James F. Cooper law long reality It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong. James F. Cooper agency evil integrity 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 united-states new-york thinking It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. James F. Cooper agency principles evil Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. James F. Cooper being-true scandal truth Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken. James F. Cooper unbroken may men Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child? James F. Cooper whales blue children
