Every time a man smiles,—but much more so, when he laughs, that it adds something to this Fragment of life. - Laurence Sterne

We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.
Not I, quoth my uncle. — But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about. — No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.

la vida misma es inefable, ineluctable, y sin duda trágica, redimida sólo en la medida en que la redención es posible a través de la risa, que se burla del misterio; del amor, que lo acepta; y del arte, que lo recrea.