The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber. Lew Wallace More Quotes by Lew Wallace More Quotes From Lew Wallace Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others. Lew Wallace shells growing men The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. Lew Wallace tests action love-is 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. Lew Wallace beautiful children hands While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others. Lew Wallace unjust wise justice 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. Lew Wallace wine real dream As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly. Lew Wallace behaviour men way A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune. Lew Wallace trials men funny All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico. Lew Wallace mexico elsewhere failing The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. Lew Wallace inscriptions after-death protest 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. Lew Wallace writing men book This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity. Lew Wallace military humanity war Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. Lew Wallace repentance sin heaven 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. Lew Wallace summer birthday men Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God. Lew Wallace knowledge-of-god pure wisdom It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline. Lew Wallace band discipline wise 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. Lew Wallace remembrance gratitude fighting Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love? Lew Wallace hurt best-friend men Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction. Lew Wallace taken self sympathy Pride is never so loud as when in chains. Lew Wallace chains loud pride 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 at the hands of another, who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names; such is history. Lew Wallace vanity writing running
