56 Quotes by Lew Wallace

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

Knowledge leaves no room for chances.

He was angry; not as the irritable, from chafing of a trifle; nor was his anger like the fool's, pumped from the wells of nothing, to be dissipated by a reproach or a curse; it was the wrath peculiar to ardent natures rudely awakened by the sudden annihilation of a hope --dream, if you will-- in which the choicest happinesses were thought to be certainly in reach. In such case nothing intermediate will carry off the passion --the quarrel is with Fate.

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.

The race was on; the souls of the racers were in it; over them bent the myriads.

The enemy of man is man, my brother.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers.

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?