Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and to set, in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.

总而言之，这无疑证明：世上几乎没有哪种处境糟糕到毫无可感恩之处，无论是免于某种灾祸，还是获得某种好处。就让这段极其悲惨的经历成为一个提醒：我们总能从中找到些许慰藉，在盘点好坏时，把它记在有利的一栏。