Ella Wheeler Wilcox

　　The words of American poet and author, Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 -- 1919) are widely known around the world, even by people that have never heard her name:

　　Laugh, and the world laughs with you;

　　Weep, and you weep alone.

　　Those are the opening lines are from her most famous poem, Solitude, published in the February 25, 1883 issue of The New York Sun.