Stephen Leacock Humour Quotations

All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.