Quotes by Cooper, James F.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a wa >>

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, an >>

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment >>

Quotations about Candor

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early oppor >>

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. >>

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. >>

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Cooper, James F.