Quotes about Joy

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

God bless us, every one!

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

And so, as Tiny Tim said, 'A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, everyone!

The happiness he gives is quite as great, as if it cost a fortune.

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

and though the merriment was rather boisterous, still it came from the heart and not from the lips; and this is the right sort of merriment, after all.