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The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1) QUOTES

The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1) QUOTES

1 " Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

2 " It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

3 " Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

4 " God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

5 " Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

6 " When men speak, they should say that which does not go in at one side of the head and out at the other. Their words shouldn't be feathers, so light that a wind which does not ruffle the water can blow them away. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

7 " The arches of the woods, even at high noon, cast their sombre shadows on the spot, which the brilliant rays of the sun that struggled through the leaves contributed to mellow, and if such an expression can be used, to illuminate. It was probably from a similar scene that the mind of man first got its idea of the effects of gothic tracery and churchly hues, this temple of nature producing some such effect, so far as light and shadow were concerned, as the well-known offspring of human invention. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

8 " The deer that goes too often to the lick meets the hunter at last! "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

9 " 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 udersized opinion of himself. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

10 " And where, then, is your sweetheart, Deerslayer?" "She's in the forest, Judith—hanging from the boughs of the trees, in a soft rain—in the dew on the open grass—the clouds that float about in the blue heavens—the birds that sing in the woods—the sweet springs where I slake my thirst—and in all the other glorious gifts that come from God's Providence! "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

11 " When the colony's laws, or even the King's laws, run ag'in the laws of God, they get to be onlawful, and ought not to be obeyed. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

12 " has dropped into the river," said Hurry, after looking carefully along "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

13 " ...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

14 " I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized... "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

15 " I look upon the redmen to be quite as human as we are ourselves, Hurry. They have their gifts, and their religion, it's true; but that makes no difference in the end, when each will be judged according to his deeds and not according to his skin. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

16 " Even the robin and the martin come back, year after year, to their old nests; shall a woman be less true hearted than a bird? "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

17 " The woods are but the ears of the Almighty, the air is his breath, and the light of the sun is little more than a glance of his eye. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

18 " Content is a great fortifier of good looks. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

19 " We live in a world of endless transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true. "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)

20 " Mendacity and vulgarity can only permanently affect those who resort to their use. (Ch 17) "

― James Fenimore Cooper , The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)