If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.
When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of time to spend at home with my family.
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.