James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
“[I]t is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!”
- From James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans (chapter 8), originally published in 1826. The reprinted edition used here is from the De Luxe Editions Club / The Country Life Press (New York, 1950s?).
