...dinner to dark I give to society and recreation with my neighbors and friends; and from candlelight to early bed-time I read. My health is perfect and...it is as great as usually falls to the lot of near 67 years of age. I talk of ploughs and harrows, seeding and harvesting, with my neighbors, and of politics...
My mornings are devoted to correspondence. From breakfast to dinner, I am in my shops, my garden, or on horseback among my farms ; from dinner to dark... 
