His attentions were not graduated.

They were the same to all, as deferential in talking to the messenger boy as to Secretary Seward.

His charm lay in the total absence of manner.

It was not so much, perhaps, what he said as the way in which he said it that never failed to win one.

I have often regretted that I did not note down carefully at the time some of his curious sayings, for he said even common things in an original way.