There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
James Boswell
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
James Boswell
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.