“A man can laugh while he suffers.”
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
“a man is not poor if he can still laugh”
“... he found he was suffering from laugh-deficit disorder.”
“Pain is pain, whether it be inflicted on man or beast; and the creature that suffers it, whether man or beast, being sensible of the misery of it while it lasts, suffers evil and the sufferance of evil, unmerited, unprovoked, where no offence has been given, and no good can possibly be answered by it, but merely to exhibit power or gratify malice, is Cruelty and Injustice in him that occasions is.”
“A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.”