Unlike so many people, who, either from lack of energy or else from a resigned sense of the obligation laid upon them by their social grandeur to remain moored like houseboats to a certain point on the bank of the stream of life, abstain from the pleasures which are offered to them above and below that point, that degree in life in which they will remain fixed until the day of their death, and are content, in the end, to describe as pleasures, for want of any better, those mediocre distractions, that just not intolerable tedium which is enclosed there with them;
Bera ez zen beste hainbat jende-klase bezalakoa, zeinek, nagikeriaz edota gizartearen honaindiko ibaiertzari estekatua izatearen handitasunak sortzen bide duen betebeharrari etsi-etsian ederretsiz, uko egiten baitiete hil arte bizi ohi diren beren gizarte-maila aintzatetsi horretatik at errealitateak eskaintzen dizkien plazerei, azken finean plazer deitzen dietelarik, ezer hoberik ezean, haietara ohituta baitaude, beren posizio horrek dakarzkien badaezpadako libertimenduei nahiz asperdura jasangarriei.