Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Though smooth be the heartless prayer no ear in heaven will mind it And the finest phrase falls dead if there is no feeling behind it.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant When life flows along like a song But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox