To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.