One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

What I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.