“A man is more likely to keep calm if he wakes in the night and discovers that the house is on fire than he is if his coffee is below the standard.”
About Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born on 5 November 1850 in Johnstown Center, Wisconsin, a rural community whose fields, seasons, family routines, and wide horizons remained central to her imaginative life. She died on 30 October 1919 at her home in Short Beach, Connecticut, only days before her sixty-ninth birthday. Between…