"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."

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Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann