One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.Lew Wallace
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.
Lew Wallace
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
Lew Wallace
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
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
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