IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Toms Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. – Carl Clinton Van Doren

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. – W. H. Davies

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. – Johann von Goethe