Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.

Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.

I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”

He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.