Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Quotes

• “Everyone has known this condition of mind, though perhaps not all in the same degree; everyone will recognise it as the ...”
• “There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of dis...”
• “The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the...”
• “They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may ...”
• “Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding ...”
• “In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble i...”
• “There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of dis...”
• “It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.”
• “Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.”
• “Pride is never so loud as when in chains.”
• “The enemy of man is man, my brother.”