When ordinary men allow themselves to be worked up by common every-day difficulties into fever-fits of passion, we can give them nothing but a compassionate smile. But we look with a kind of awe on a spirit in which the seed of a great destiny has been sown, which must abide the unfolding of the germ, and neither dare nor can do anything to precipitate either the good or the ill, either the happiness or the misery, which is to arise out of it.
Pertsona arruntek, eguneroko kezka arrunten bitartez egoera grinatsu eta larri bateraino asaldatzean, gupidazko irribarre bat sortarazten digute; aitzitik, beti beldurrez begiratzen diogu destino handi baten ernamuinak bere baitan dituenari, sentsibilitate horren garapenari itxaroten egon behar duenari, eta uste duenari ezin duela eta ez duela bizkortu behar gauzen egoera horretatik sor litekeen ongia edo gaizkia, zoriona edo zorigaitza.