"And yet," continued Lord Henry, in his low, musical voice, and with that graceful wave of the hand that was always so characteristic of him, and that he had even in his Eton days, "I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream-I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal-to something finer, richer than the Hellenic ideal, it may be.
-Eta hala ere-ekin zion berriro Lord Henryk, bere ahots leun eta musikalaz, eta Eton-eko garaietatik mantentzen zuen eta zegoeneko bere ezaugarri bitxia bihurtu zen eskuaren keinada polit hura eginez-, gizon bakar batek sikiera bere bizitza osoki eta bete-betean bizi nahiko balu, bere sentimendu guztiei forma, bere pentsamendu guztiei hitza, bere ametsei oro errealitate bat eman nahiko balie, benetan sinisten dut, munduak halako alaitasun bultzada fresko bat irabaziko lukeela; ze guk, bat-batean ahaztuko baikenituzke Erdi Harotik datozkigun gaitz guzti hauek; eta eredu helenikora itzuliko ginateke gainera, edota agian, eredu helenikoa bera baino askozaz ederragoa, aberatsagoa litzatekeen beste batera.