« Décidément, pensai-je, plutôt que de chercher ou peut mener un tel amalgame de connaissances et quelle est la carriere dans laquelle elles peuvent etre utiles, mieux vaut y renoncer tout de suite. »
"If I can only find what the fellow is driving at by reconciling all these accomplishments, and discovering a calling which needs them all," I said to myself, "I may as well give up the attempt at once."