It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve; and that if from this day you began with resolution to correct your thoughts and actions, you would in a few years have laid up a new and stainless store of recollections, to which you might revert with pleasure."
Mi sembra che facendo atto di volontà, sareste presto degno della vostra approvazione, e che se fin da questo momento faceste proposito di modificare atti e pensieri, in capo a qualche anno avreste un passato puro, che potreste guardare con gioia.