Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.