56 Quotes by Lew Wallace

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.

It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.

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.

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.

In warning there is strength.

Thy heart is good, Esther, good as thy mother's was; and I prayit have not the fate of most good hearts--to be trampled uponby the unmerciful and blind.

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

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

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