HUMOR, DEFENSE AGAINST ADVERSE FORTUNE
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
HUMOR, MOVE BACK FROM IT A LITTLE
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.