Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not for a man. We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, "I bet that my Redeemer liveth." When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness. Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others. A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. Most of those who call themselves artists are in reality picture dealers, only they make the pictures themselves. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. | 
