Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

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

The best part of health is fine disposition.

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

Mutual good humour is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns our selves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.