“Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of ...” — James Fenimore Cooper Quote

“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.”

“I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?”

“You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.”

“If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.”

“Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.”