10 inspirational james fenimore cooper quotes on success

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.
Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.
You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!
Patience is the greatest of virtues in a woodsman.
And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?
Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.