Lew Wallace

Knowledge leaves no room for chances.

A word as to the pleasure there is in the thought of a Soul in each of us. In the first place, it robs death of its terrors by making dying a change for the better, and burial but the planting of a seed from which there will spring a new life.

Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works.

A man can carry his mind with him as he carries his watch; but like the watch, to keep it going he must keep it wound up.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God.

The fiend whose task it is to torture us with fears and bitter thoughts seldom does his work by halves.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.