A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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