Though I have been brought up, as much as was possible, to liberty and independence, yet so it is that, growing old, and having by indifference more settled upon certain forms (my age is now past instruction, and has henceforward nothing to do but to keep itself up as well as it can), custom has already, ere I was aware, so imprinted its character in me in certain things, that I look upon it as a kind of excess to leave them off;
Ahal bezainbat libertatean eta soraiotasunean hezia banaiz ere, orain, utzikeriagatik edo zaharreriaren ondorioz molde zenbaitetan jarriagoa naizelako (nire adina heziketaz kanpo da, bere buruaren mantenuarekin aski du), ohiturak, gogoetatu gabe, nire baitan hain ongi inprimatu du bere izaera gauza zenbaitetan non sobera bailitzateke hortik desbideratzea.