He was one of the best and kindest hearted men that ever graced a humble sphere of life.

He was gentleness and simplicity itself--and unselfishness, too.

Although he was more than twice as old as the eldest of us, he never gave himself any airs, privileges, or exemptions on that account.

He did a young man's share of the work; and did his share of conversing and entertaining from the general stand-point of any age--not from the arrogant, overawing summit-height of sixty years.

His one striking peculiarity was his Partingtonian fashion of loving and using big words for their own sakes, and independent of any bearing they might have upon the thought he was purposing to convey.