[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden……

— Julie Moir Messervy

The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear…

— Michel De Montaigne

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power dwells with cheerfulness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned…

— Marcus Aurelius