The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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More quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
- You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
- With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
- The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
- It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.