In his face and eyes he resembled his mother; and he derived from her the piety which marked his course through life.

His short, spare person, his vivid, ever-active intellect testified to the paternal impress.

This blending of two diverse strains produced in him a singular tenacity of fiber.

Man's tenement of clay has rarely lodged a spirit so passionless, so fine, so nearly disembodied.

Of extreme physical tenuity, but gifted with inexhaustible mental energy, indefatigable in study, limitless in capacity for acquiring and retaining knowledge, he accentuated the type which nature gave him by the sustained habits of a lifetime.