I look to our old friendship, to the authority given to me by my age, and to the thorough goodness of your heart for pardon in thus accusing you.
That little men should have ventured to ill-use you, has hurt your pride.

That these little men should have been able to do so has created your diffidence.

Put you to a piece of work that a man may do, you have less false pride as to the way in which you may do it than any man I have known; and, let the way be open to you, as little diffidence as any.

But in this political mill of ours in England, a man cannot always find the way open to do things.

It does not often happen that an English statesman can go in and make a great score off his own bat.