“He who laughs most, learns best.”

“He laughs best who laughs last.”

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

“The characteristic poetic strategy of our time—refine your singularities—is something Auden has not learned; so his best poems are very peculiarly good, nearly the most interesting poems of our time. When he writes badly, we can afford to be angry at him, and he can afford to laugh at us.”

“He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.”

“Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.”

“We teach best what we most need to learn.”

“You teach best what you most need to learn.”

“In the treatment of nervous cases, he is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”

“He who laughs last may be the joke.”