Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.