While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to read more

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
[A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]

A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
[A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]

It is good
To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.

It is good
To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

Cheered up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.

Cheered up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.

That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
[Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]

That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
[Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, read more

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.