56 Quotes by Lew Wallace

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

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

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.

Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works.

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.

A word as to the pleasure there is in the thought of a Soul in each of us. In the first place, it robs death of its terrors by making dying a change for the better, and burial but the planting of a seed from which there will spring a new life.

A man can carry his mind with him as he carries his watch; but like the watch, to keep it going he must keep it wound up. Of.