But let it be clearly understood that I am now speaking only of the lowest class of the submerged.

While my experience has taught me that they, humanly speaking, are a hopeless lot, I have learned that they have their qualities.

They can endure if they cannot work; they can suffer if they cannot strive.

After all I am persuaded that they get a fair amount of happiness.

Simple pleasures are the greatest, perhaps the only real pleasures.