wit

There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.”

"Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures and rides it, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route."

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the 
world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.