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- Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. — Oscar Wilde
- When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. — William Shakespeare
- A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. — Thomas Carlyle
- In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. — Thomas de Quincey
- It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. — Thomas de Quincey
- Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. — Thomas de Quincey