Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876

US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.