We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.