The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

• 在社会上我们所能遇到的最为贤达的人士属于商人以及阅尽世事的沧桑者，他们的言论及论点全来自于自己的所见所闻，而不会去编织一些陈词滥调来设定事理本应该如何如何以求得显著。