Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.