What I know is that persons of this kind and all others that have attained to any distinction, although they may be unpopular in their lifetime in their relations with their fellow-men and especially with their equals, leave to posterity the desire of claiming connection with them even without any ground, and are vaunted by the country to which they belonged, not as strangers or ill-doers, but as fellow-countrymen and heroes.
"Nik badakit halako jendea eta zer edo zertan ospetsu bihurtu dena deseroso egiten zaiela ingurukoei haren bizitza osoan zehar, lehenbizi bera bezalako kideei eta gero beste guztiei, baina hurrengo belaunaldikoei lehenago ez zeukaten senidetasun bat berenganatzeko aukera ematen die, baita euren jatorrizko aberriaz harro izateko motiboa, arrotz edo gaizkile senti ez daitezen, baizik eta beren ondasunen jabe eta gauza onak egiteko gai.