Lew Wallace Quotes

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

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

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

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.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

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.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is history.

Knowledge leaves no room for chances.