By the side of that ideal life, there is a material life, and the purest resolutions are held to earth by threads which seem slight enough, but which are of iron, not easily to be broken.
A côté de la vie idéale, il y a la vie matérielle, et les résolutions les plus chastes sont retenues à terre par des fils ridicules, mais de fer, et que l'on ne brise pas facilement.