He enjoyed life and wasted no time on trivial worries, hit-or-miss, the keynote to his thought.
The Dutch blood of Holland and the cavalier blood of England mingled in his veins in fair proportion.

He was especially proud of the uncle, his mother's brother, the Southern admiral, head of the Confederate naval organization in Europe, who had fitted out the rebel cruisers and sent them to sea.

And well he might be, for a nobler American never lived.

At the close of the War of Sections Admiral Bullock had in his possession some half million dollars of Confederate money.

Instead of appropriating this to his own use, as without remark or hindrance he might have done, he turned it over to the Government of the United States, and died a poor man.
The inconsistencies and quarrels in which Theodore Roosevelt was now and again involved were largely temperamental.