It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse—the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

A jest breaks no bones.

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

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Big head, little wit.