I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

我不知道我似乎世界,但我对自己似乎一直只是一个在海边嬉戏的孩子,并将自己在现在,然后找到一个光滑的鹅卵石或一个漂亮的外壳比普通,而在我面前的伟大的真理的海洋熟视无睹。