HUMOR
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
HUMOR, DEFENSE AGAINST ADVERSE FORTUNE
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
HUMOR, POLITENESS IS ARTIFICIAL GOOD HUMOR
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.