I suppose I was willing, correct, and faithful.

I improved my knowledge by reading books on astronomy.

I got, amongst others, 'The Mechanism of the Heavens,' by Denison Olmstead, an American; a very understandable book.

Learning English, which was a foreign language to me, led me to learn other languages.

I took pleasure in finding out the roots or radixes of words, and from time to time I added foreign dictionaries to my little library.