Joy

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

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles in your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.

You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happy

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, and hope and fear, believe the aged friend, is just a chance o' the prize of learning love

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy

Life has a higher end, than to be amused

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market