Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

No path is wholly rough.

Whatever is… is best.

There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives the world more light.

I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results–or ill.

I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

Say you are well, or all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God’s bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe.

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

I’m no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm.

Let us clear a little space, And make Love a burial-place. He is dead, dear, as you see, And he wearies you and me.