For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face

As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me Thoughts that would thick my blood.

Had she been light, like you, Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, She might ha' been a grandam ere she died; And so may you, for a light heart lives long.

That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]