The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.