Dr. Thomas Brown born 1778.
Elizabeth O. Benger died 1822.
Caroline Lucretia Herschel died 1848, aged ninety-seven.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness altogether past calculation
its powers of endurance. Efforts to be permanently useful must be
uniformly joyous--a spirit of all sunshine.
--Thomas Carlyle.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.
--Washington Irving.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
--Charles Lamb.
A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart
the spirit is broken.
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a stalled ox and
hatred therewith.
--Proverbs 15. 13, 17.
Gracious Father, if I am sorrowing over disappointment and am
forgetful, grant that I may see the things thou hast made, for which I
should be thankful. Help me to so live that I may have a right to
claim a cheerful heart. Amen.