When certain men perceive that they are the foremost persons in society, without contestation and without effort-when they are constantly engaged on large objects, leaving the more minute details to others-and when they live in the enjoyment of wealth which they did not amass and which they do not fear to lose, it may be supposed that they feel a kind of haughty disdain of the petty interests and practical cares of life, and that their thoughts assume a natural greatness, which their language and their manners denote.
egunero xede handiak dituztela aurrean beren ardurapean, xehetasunak beste batzuentzat utziz; berek lortu gabeko aberastasunean bizi direla, galtzeko beldurrik gabe, gainera; ulertzekoa da orduan nolabaiteko destaina harroa sentitzea bizitzako interes txiki eta ardura materialekiko, eta handitasun naturala izatea pentsamenduan, hitzek eta manerek adierazten dutena.