We should consider ourselves as travellers who ought to have all our thoughts fixed upon another country: but all useful and permanent labours, every care to secure fortunes for our children, schemes which reach beyond this short and transitory life, appear as things extravagant.
Beste sorterri batean soilik pentsatu behar dugun bidaiariak garela: Jan baliagarri eta iraunkorrak, gure haurren fortuna ziurtatzeko ardurak, bizitza labur eta iheskor hau gainditzen duten egitasmoak, gauza harrigarritzat jotzen ditugularik.