The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

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.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty
attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.

A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty
attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.

Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive

Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive

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

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

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.