The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.