Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Joy came always after pain.

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.