Lew Wallace Quotes
Top 37 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Lew Wallace on Wise Famous Quotes.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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.
God!
what we have here is of thee; take our thanks and bless us, that we may continue to do thy will.
Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love; would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.
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.
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
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.
Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone.
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.
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.
to the poor and humble.
We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers.
Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity].
Hope deals with the future; now and the past are but servants that wait on her with impulse and suggestive circumstance.
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
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?
For to-day I drink and live;
For to-day I beg or borrow;
Who knows about the silent morrow?
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.
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.
It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.