Laugh.

Jackson, Portrait of Robert Burton, 1635

I am not poor, I am not rich. I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower.  I live still a collegiate student and lead a monastic life, sufficient entertainment to myself, sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world.  I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life. I laugh at it all.

Robert Burton