What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling life, and to have been taught by rough and bitter experience to long for the calm amidst which I now repined!
Il m'aurait fallu les orages d'une vie incertaine et pleine de luttes, une expérience rude et amère, pour me faire aimer le milieu paisible dans lequel je vivais.