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

- Lew Wallace

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

- 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, ear…

- Lew Wallace

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

- Lew Wallace

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

- Lew Wallace

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

- Lew Wallace

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

- Lew Wallace

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 s…

- Lew Wallace

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

- Lew Wallace