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
This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.
The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.
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.