Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. - William Somerset Maugham

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise...

Society tempts me to its service by honours and riches and the good opinion of my fellows; but I am indifferent to their good opinion, I despise honours and I can do very well without riches.