Lew Wallace famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.
-- Lew Wallace

#Men #Shells #Growing
The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.
-- Lew Wallace

#Love Is #Tests #Action
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.
-- Lew Wallace

#Men #Trials #Fortune
While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.
-- Lew Wallace

#Wise #Justice #Unjust
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
-- Lew Wallace

#Inscriptions #Protest #After Death
Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.
-- Lew Wallace

#Wisdom
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
-- Lew Wallace

#Men #Behaviour #Way
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.
-- Lew Wallace

#Light #Bird #Tree
This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.
-- Lew Wallace

#War #Humanity #Good Things
All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.
-- Lew Wallace

#Mexico #Failing #Elsewhere
Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?
-- Lew Wallace

#Best Friend #Hurt #Men
Pride is never so loud as when in chains.
-- Lew Wallace

#Pride #Loud #Chains
There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of themselves or in the hands of another, who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names; such is history.
-- Lew Wallace

#Running #Writing #Vanity
To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.
-- Lew Wallace

#Humble #Reform #Cups
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.
-- Lew Wallace

#Art #Nature #Epic
Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.
-- Lew Wallace

#Love #Hope #Wings
Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.
-- Lew Wallace

#Dream #Real #Sleep
What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.
-- Lew Wallace

#Children #Earth #Steps
It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colours the rose, he distils the dewdrop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and imposed its conditions; and they are such guaranty to me that, trustful as a little child, I leave to him the organization of my Soul, and every arrangement for the life after death. I know he loves me.
-- Lew Wallace

#Beautiful #Children #Hands
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
-- Lew Wallace

#Lonely #Loneliness #People
A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.
-- Lew Wallace

#Birthday #Summer #Men
It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.
-- Lew Wallace

#Wise #Discipline #Band
I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.
-- Lew Wallace

#Book #Writing #Men

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