“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.”
“Now pastor Jón Prímus laughed. Philosophy and theology have no effect on him, much less plain common sense. Impossible to convince this man by arguments. But humour he always listens to, even though it be ill humour.”
“The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.”
“Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.”
“She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.”