 It appears to me then that virtuous happiness being our lawful aim in life , that having Academic Rank and Fame the next thing to be considered ( if God approve ) is to seek that Decent Competency which shall make my latter days comfortable and happy , which I hope if it please Him , to be able to do by the time I am fifty — by occasionally mixing with my historic pictures a Portrait or two , and to vary and extend my sphere — a classic Landscape or two so that if I can get about 100 a year I may be enabled to retire to my dear native city and spend my latter days in peace . 
