All that is rather stiff, as we say.

But at any rate you have done something and you are something; you have used your will and you have made your fortune.

You have not stupified yourself with debauchery and you have not mortgaged your fortune to social conveniences.

You take things easily, and you have fewer prejudices even than I, who pretend to have none, but who in reality have three or four.

Happy man, you are strong and you are free.