You are aware that he loathed the first Napoleon and that he hates the French nation; also, he detests the present state of French affairs, and has foamed over in the 'Examiner' 'in prose and rhyme' on the subject of them.
Nevertheless, he who calls 'the Emperor' 'an infernal fool' expresses himself to this effect about the President: 'I always knew him to be a man of wonderful genius.

I knew him intimately, and I was persuaded of what was in him.

When people have said to me, "How can you like to waste your time with so trifling a man ?" I have answered: "If all your Houses of Parliament, putting their heads together, could make a head equal to this trifling man's head it would be well for England." It was quite unexpected to me to hear Mr.Landor talk so.
He, Mr.Landor, is looking as young as ever, as full of life and passionate energy.
Did Mr.Horne write to you before he went to Australia?
Did I speak to you about his going?
Did you see the letter which he put into the papers as a farewell to England?
I think of it all sadly.
Mazzini came to see us the other day, with that pale spiritual face of his, and those intense eyes full of melancholy illusions.

I was thinking, while he sate there, on what Italian turf he would lie at last with a bullet in his heart, or perhaps with a knife in his back, for to one of those ends it will surely come.

Mrs.Carlyle came with him.