Top 52 Lew Wallace Quotes
#1. 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
#2. It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.
Lew Wallace
#3. Believing in God, invisible yet supreme, I also believed it possible so to yearn for him with all my soul that he would take compassion and give me answer.
Lew Wallace
#4. Such were the shepherds of Judea! In appearance, rough and savage as the gaunt dogs with them around the blaze; in fact, simple-minded, tender-hearted; effects in due, in part, to the primitive life they led, but chiefly to their constant care of things lovable and helpless.
Lew Wallace
#5. For I thought there was a relation between God and the soul as yet unknown. On this theme the mind can reason to a point, a dead, impassable wall; arrived there, all that remains is to stand and cry aloud for help.
Lew Wallace
#6. In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble is always with the swiftest.
Lew Wallace
#7. For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.
Lew Wallace
#8. They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may prove to the after-life what each finger-touch of the artist is to the clay he is modelling.
Lew Wallace
#9. Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love; would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.
Lew Wallace
#10. Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.
Lew Wallace
#11. Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone.
Lew Wallace
#12. When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
Lew Wallace
#13. While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.
Lew Wallace
#14. The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
Lew Wallace
#15. The most perfect life develops as a circle, and terminates in its beginning, making it impossible to say, This is the commencement, that the end.
Lew Wallace
#17. The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.
Lew Wallace
#18. To every bench, as a fixture, there was a chain with heavy anklets. These the hortator proceeded to lock upon the oarsmen, going from number to number, leaving no choice but to obey, and, in event of disaster, no possibility of escape.
Lew Wallace
#19. I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.
Lew Wallace
#20. If thou dost think of me again, O tribune, let it not be lost in thy mind that I prayed thee only for word of my people - mother, sister.
Lew Wallace
#21. Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity].
Lew Wallace
#22. Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.
Lew Wallace
#23. One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Lew Wallace
#24. Religion is merely the law which binds man to his Creator: in purity it has but these elements
God, the Soul, and their Mutual Recognition; out of which, when put in practise, spring Worship, Love, and Reward.
Lew Wallace
#25. The race was on; the souls of the racers were in it; over them bent the myriads.
Lew Wallace
#26. Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
Lew Wallace
#27. This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.
Lew Wallace
#28. Pride is never so loud as when in chains.
Lew Wallace
#29. My ancestors further back than the first Roman were Hebrews." "The stubborn pride of thy race is not lost in thee," said Arrius, observing a flush upon the rower's face. "Pride is never so loud as when in chains." "What cause hast thou for pride?" "That I am a Jew." Arrius smiled.
Lew Wallace
#30. The wife of Ben-Hur, sat in her room in the beautiful villa by Misenum. It was noon, with a warm Italian sun making summer for the roses and vines outside. Everything in the apartment was Roman,
Lew Wallace
#31. The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.
Lew Wallace
#32. BEN-HUR." Esther returned the letter to her father, while a choking sensation gathered in her throat. There was not a word in the missive for her
not even in the salutation had she a share
and it would have been so easy to have written "and to thine, peace." For the first time
Lew Wallace
#33. They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.
Lew Wallace
#35. Hope deals with the future; now and the past are but servants that wait on her with impulse and suggestive circumstance.
Lew Wallace
#36. Thy heart is good, Esther, good as thy mother's was; and I pray
it have not the fate of most good hearts
to be trampled upon
by the unmerciful and blind.
Lew Wallace
#37. 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
#38. I will be the stronger of the knowledge. In warning there is strength.
Lew Wallace
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.
Lew Wallace
#42. As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
Lew Wallace
#43. In a verse of the Shema they found all the learning and all the law of their simple lives
that their Lord was One God, and that they must love him with all their souls. And they loved him, and such was their wisdom, surpassing that of kings.
Lew Wallace
#44. What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.
Lew Wallace
#45. Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
Lew Wallace
#46. It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.
Lew Wallace
#48. From the depths of the well I had discovered a light above, and yearned to go up and see what all it shone upon. At last
ah, with what years of toil!
I stood in the perfect day, and beheld the principle of life, the element of religion, the link between the soul and God
Love!
Lew Wallace
#49. For to-day I take or give;
For to-day I drink and live;
For to-day I beg or borrow;
Who knows about the silent morrow?
Lew Wallace
#50. Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.
Lew Wallace
#51. Father of all
God!
what we have here is of thee; take our thanks and bless us, that we may continue to do thy will.
Lew Wallace
#52. We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers.
Lew Wallace
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
