I can select my own hours for pigs and peaches, and should I, through the dotage of age, make mistakes as to the breeding of the one or the flavour of the other, the harm done will not go far.

In politics I have done my work.

What you and others in the arena do will interest me more than all other things of this world, I think and hope, to my dying day.
But I will not trouble the workers with the querulousness of old age.
So much for myself.

And now let me, as I go, say a parting word to him with whom in politics I have been for many years more in accord than with any other leading man.

As nothing but age or infirmity would to my own mind have justified me in retiring, so do I think that you, who can plead neither age nor infirmity, will find yourself at last to want self-justification, if you permit yourself to be driven from the task either by pride or by indifference.
I should express my feelings better were I to say by pride and diffidence.