More than a century ago, he was looking back on his life, and he wrote this: "There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account.
Pirms vairāk nekā gadsimta, atskatoties uz savu dzīvi, viņš rakstīja: „Nav laika – tik īsa ir dzīve – ķildoties, atvainoties, skaust, saukt pie atbildības.