He is much above ordinary size, and, though now gray-haired, would be extraordinarily handsome if it were not for an expression of ill-temper about the mouth.
"An Englishmen is proud; a Cambridge man is the proudest of Englishmen; and Dr.Whewell, the proudest of Cambridge men.
"In the opinion of a Cambridge man, to be master of Trinity is to be master of the world! "At lunch, to which we stayed, Dr.Whewell talked about American writers, and was very severe upon them; some of them were friends of mine, and it was not pleasant.

But I was especially hurt by a remark which he made afterwards.

Americans are noted in England for their use of slang.

The English suppose that the language of Sam Slick or of Nasby is the language used in cultivated society.

They do not seem to understand it, and I have no doubt to-day that Lowell's comic poems are taken seriously.