Poem

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess, wrote:

It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
For the test of the heart is trouble,
And it always comes with the years,
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth
Is the smile that shines through tears.
(“Worth While.”)

Thomas S. Monson, Miracles Then and Now from the Ensign Magazine November 1992, 68 from a talk given by President Thomas S. Monson The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints