Quotes by : Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest,....

Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results....

Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each....

It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.

There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and....

For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.

There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and....

For know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body,....

I see, I see! From association Messala, in boyhood, was almost a Jew; had he remained here, he might....