I began to listen with a determination to remember it in order, but it was without method, or order, or system.

It was like a beam of light moving in the undulatory waves, meeting with occasional meteors in its path; it was exceedingly captivating.

It surprised me that there was not only no commonplace thought, but there was no commonplace expression.

If he quoted, he quoted from what we had not read; if he told an anecdote, it was one that had not reached us.

At the outset he was very severe upon the science of the age.