Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
William HazlittThe definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
William HazlittPerhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
William HazlittFrom the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.
William Hazlitt