The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.