Lew Wallace Quotes

I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.

Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity].

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.

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.

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.

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.

For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.

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!

They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.

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.