He sees that in every state people may be cheerful; the lambs skip, birds sing and fly joyously, puppies play, kittens are full of joyance, the whole air full of careering and rejoicing insects; that everywhere the good outbalances the bad, and that every evil has its compensating balm.
"Bishop Fenelon is a delicious man," said Lord Peterborough; "I had to run away from him to prevent his making me a Christian." Hume, the historian, never said anything truer than--"To be happy, the person must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty." Dr.Johnson once remarked with his point and pith that the custom of looking on the bright side of every event was better than having a thousand pounds a year income.

But Hume rated the value in dollars and cents of cheerfulness still higher.

He said he would rather have a cheerful disposition always inclined to look on the bright side of things than to be master of an estate with 10,000 pounds a year.
"We have not fulfilled every duty, unless we have fulfilled that of being pleasant." "If a word or two will render a man happy," said a Frenchman, "he must be a wretch indeed, who will not give it.

It is like lighting another man's candle with your own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains." The sensible young man, in theory at least, chooses for his wife one who will be able to keep his house, to be the mother of sturdy children, one who will of all things meet life's experiences with a sweet temper.