328 Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer’s interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to a pin. And she pricks you, and she sticks you, in a way that can’t be said, When you seek for what has hurt you, why, you cannot find the head.

Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die.

Love is the only duty that we know...

Just a little every day That’s the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.

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.

I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn’t you be my friend?

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

High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, “Remember Night!”