Cromwell died at the age of fifty-nine.

In ten years' time he was able to undertake much, but to accomplish little.

Besides, his reform was a total one--a vast political reform by the substitution of a republican government for a monarchical one.

Well, grant that I live to be Cromwell's age, fifty-nine; that is not too much to expect; I shall still have twenty years, just the double of Cromwell.

And remark, I change nothing, I progress; I do not overthrow, I build up.