I'm a war, of head versus heart, and it's always been this way.
Let her contemplate Nature entire in her full and lofty majesty; let her put far from the sight of the lowly objects that surround her; let her regard that blazing light, placed like an eternal lamp to illuminate the world; let the earth appear to her but a point within the vast circuit which that star describes; and let her marvel that this immense circumference is itself but a speck from the viewpoint of the stars that move in the firmament. And if the vision is stopped there, let imagination pass beyond... All this visible world is but an imperceptible element in the great bosom of nature. No thought can go so far... It is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere. imagination loses itself, and becomes beautiful.
The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing
there is an eternity of life and happiness. And this being so, if there were an infinity of chances, of which one only would be for you, you would still be right in wagering one to win two, and you would act stupidly, being obliged to play, by refusing to stake one life against three at a game in which out of an infinity of chances there is one for you, if there were an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain. But there is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. It is all divided; wherever the infinite is and there is not an infinity of chances of loss against that of gain, there is no time to hesitate, you must give all.
Since there is an equal risk of gain and of loss, if you had only to gain two lives, instead of one, you might still wager. But if there were three lives to gain, you would have to play (since you are under the necessity of playing), and you would be imprudent, when you are forced to play, not to chance your life to gain three at a game where there is an equal risk of loss and gain. But there is an eternity of life and happiness.
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