I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
I think being nice is more important than being clever.
Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.
If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.
I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.
