Ella wheeler wilcox

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
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.
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.
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word...
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.