Creative Quotations from . . .
James Fenimore Cooper
(1789-1851) born on Sep 15
US novelist. "He was the first important American novelist; wrote "The Spy," 1821 and "The Last of the Mohicans," 1826."
 
   
F
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms."

R
"The Americans . . . are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency."
A
"Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts."
N
"A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country."
K
"The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""The American Democrat," "On Language," 1838."
R: ""The American Democrat," "On Civilization," 1838."
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: "In "A New Dictionary of Quotations," by H.L. Mencken, 1942."
K: ""The American Democrat.""



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