"In the different countries which it has been my fate to traverse, and at the many inns where I have been a servant, I have observed a prodigious number of people who held their existence in abhorrence, and yet I never knew more than twelve who voluntarily put an end to their misery; namely, three Negroes, four Englishmen, as many Genevese, and a German professor named Robek.
En los paises adonde me ha llevado mi suerte, y en los mesones donde he servido, he visto infinita cantidad de personas que maldecian su exîstencia; pero no han pasado de doce las que he visto que daban voluntariamente fin á sus cuitas: tres negros, quatro Ingleses, quatro Ginebrinos, y un catedrático aleman llamado Robel.