A man with mirth is like a chariot with springs, in which one can ride over the roughest roads and scarcely feel anything but a pleasant rocking motion.
"I have told you," said Southey, "of the Spaniard who always put on spectacles when about to eat cherries, in order that the fruit might look larger and more tempting.

In like manner I make the most of my enjoyments; and though I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles, I pack them in as small a compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others." We all know the power of good cheer to magnify everything.
Travelers are told by the Icelanders, who live amid the cold and desolation of almost perpetual winter, that "Iceland is the best land the sun shines upon." "You are on the shady side of seventy, I expect ?" was asked of an old man.

"No," was the reply, "I am on the sunny side; for I am on the side nearest to glory." A cheerful man is pre-eminently a useful man.

He does not cramp his mind, nor take half-views of men and things.

He knows that there is much misery, but that misery need not be the rule of life.