"Niemand wird tiefer traurig als wer zu viel lächelt."

"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as…"

"Put your prejudice aside, For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous, Nothing sick, or bad — or contagious. …"

"Has he gone to the land of no laughter, The man who made mirth for us all?"

"Now everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose…"

"Castigat ridendo mores."

"Nimium risus pretium est, si probitatis impendio constat."

"One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man."

"Tel qui rit vendredi, dimanche pleurera."

"I have always been a laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laug…"