拉斐特（Lafayette）是一个出色的人……具有奇妙，自嘲的幽默感。例如，当他到达印度前哨站时，他会明显秃顶……他通过指出我不能失去自己没有的东西来使妻子的焦虑平静下来。
(Lafayette was a splendid man...with a marvelous, self-depreciating sense of humor. He was, for example, balding noticeably when he reached an Indian outpost...and he calmed his wife's anxieties by noting that I cannot lose what I do not have.)