Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace
Lewis "Lew" Wallacewas an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 April 1827
CityBrookeville, IN
CountryUnited States of America
Lew Wallace quotes about
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.
Am I going home to idleness? No, no. My feet and hands may be still, not so the mind--that has its aspirations yet, and it will work, for it has a law unto itself. Idleness is one thing, doing is another.
Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.