From this is derived the frivolity of temperament which made him support easily the enormous load of his evils and of his faults.

His mind was born anew every day.

He had, more than any other person, a capacity for diversion.

The first day that he saw the sun rise on his funereal rock at Saint Helena, he jumped from his bed, whistling a romantic air.

It was the peace of a mind superior to fortune; it was the frivolity of a mind prompt in resurrection.