The person who laughs at humanity does more good than the person who cries over it. When you laugh, you still believe people can get better. When you cry, you've given up hope that anything will change. Someone who looks at the whole world and can't help but laugh has a stronger mind than someone who can't stop crying. The laugher is barely bothered by what he sees. He doesn't think any of this grand show is important, serious, or tragic.
Add to this that he who laughs at the human race deserves better of it than he who mourns for it, for the former leaves it some good hopes of improvement, while the latter stupidly weeps over what he has given up all hopes of mending. He who after surveying the universe cannot control his laughter shows, too, a greater mind than he who cannot restrain his tears, because his mind is only affected in the slightest possible degree, and he does not think that any part of all this apparatus is either important, or serious, or unhappy.