Quotes by Lew Wallace

Lew Wallace

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

Funny

Men

Trials

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.

Birthday

Men

Summer

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

Elsewhere

Failing

Mexico

As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect–a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

Fighting

Gratitude

Remembrance

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

Behaviour

Men

Way

I know what I should love to do – to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing – one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.

Book

Men

Writing

It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colours the rose, he distils the dewdrop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and imposed its conditions; and they are such guaranty to me that, trustful as a little child, I leave to him the organization of my Soul, and every arrangement for the life after death. I know he loves me.

Beautiful

Children

Hands

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

Band

Discipline

Wise

Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

Dream

Real

Wine

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

Chains

Loud

Pride

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Quotes by Lew Wallace

Lew Wallace

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

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.

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

As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect–a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

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

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

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