Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“It is easy enough to be pleasant,

When life flows by like a song.

But the man worth while is the one who can smile,

When everything goes dead wrong.

For the test of the heart is troubled,

And it always comes with the years.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth

Is the smile that shines through tears.”

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

“With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.”