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
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.