Quotes from book
The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea

Name: The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea
Author: James Fenimore Cooper

The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1824 . Its subject is the life of a naval pilot during the American Revolution.

“It is probable a true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of that reason of which we so much boast.”

James Fenimore Cooper book The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea

The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea http://www.amazon.com/The-Pilot-A-Tale-Sea/dp/1490555811 (1829); Preface <br class="br">The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (1823)

“There is an uneasy desire among a vast many well-disposed persons to get the fruits of the Christian Faith, without troubling themselves about the Faith itself. This is done under the sanction of Peace Societies, Temperance and Moral Reform Societies, in which the end is too often mistaken for the means. When the Almighty sent His Son on earth, it was to point out the way in which all this was to be brought about, by means of the Church; but men have so frittered away that body of divine organization, through their divisions and subdivisions, all arising from human conceit, that it is no longer regarded as the agency it was so obviously intended to be, and various contrivances are to be employed as substitutes for that which proceeded directly from the Son of God!”

James Fenimore Cooper book The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea

The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (1824); Preface
The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (1823)