There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.