I don't think I've ever written anything that isn't funny for me. And everything in life has the element of farce. Those fits of hysteria you get at funerals, the laughter, for example, they're very hard to control.
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
