The passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly...
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The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic Pt. I Human Nature (1640) Ch. 9
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad. On the proposition that the volume generated by revolving the region under 1/x from 1 to infinity has finite volume.
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Quoted in Mathematical Maxims and Minims by N. Rose