Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Cheerfulness
All gloom is but a dream and a shadow, and that cheerfulness is the real truth.
Hawthorne.—American Note-Books, August 30, 1842.
It is good
To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
Lowell.—Legend of Brittany, Part I. St. 35.