Quotes from Lew Wallace

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

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

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

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

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

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

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

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

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

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

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

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.

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

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.