The whole visage widened upward from the chin, though not very markedly before it reached the broad-lying brows.

The temples were strongly indented by the swelling of the forehead above them: and on both sides of the head there ran a pregnant ridge, such as will sometimes lift men a deplorable half inch above the earth we tread.
If this man was a problem to others, he was none to himself; and when others called him an idealist, he accepted the title, reading himself, notwithstanding, as one who was less flighty than many philosophers and professedly practical teachers of his generation.

He saw far, and he grasped ends beyond obstacles: he was nourished by sovereign principles; he despised material present interests; and, as I have said, he was less supple than a soldier.

If the title of idealist belonged to him, we will not immediately decide that it was opprobrious.

The idealized conception of stern truths played about his head certainly for those who knew and who loved it.