If he had pursued his musical studies at Leipsic he must have become a master of the piano keyboard.

As it was, he played Schumann and Chopin creditably.

The rescue of Kinkel, the flight from the fatherland, the mild Bohemianizing in Paris and London awakened within him the spirit of action rather than of adventure.
There was nothing of the Dalgetty about him; too reflective and too accomplished.

His early marriage attests a domestic trend, from which he never departed; though an idealist in his public aspirations and aims he was a sentimentalist in his home life and affections.

Genial in temperament and disposition, his personal habit was moderation itself.
He was a German.