“Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.”
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There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.