Folly

'Most of the people in the world are fools and the rest are in great danger of contagion.' A humorous mind enables us to accommodate ourselves to their folly—and to our own.

In a way he's right, isn't he? But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or not—a fool among fools or a fool alone.

—Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker, as quoted in Thornton Wilder, Theophilus North, Myra.