Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
Source: In Quotations to Cheer You Up When the World is Getting You Down, by Allen Klein, 1991.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, (Nov 5 1850-1919), US writer, poet, journalist; She wrote 40 volumes of sentimental verse including Solitude.