It was evident that no pressure of affairs was too heavy for him, and that he constantly preserved so much liberty of mind as enabled him to jest alike with good or bad fortune.
He treated politics, war, and government with gaiety.

The tone of his voice was sonorous, manly, and vibrating; and was distinctly heard above the noise of the drum, and the clash of the bayonet.

His oratory was straightforward, clever, striking; his words were effective in council, in confidence, and intimacy: they soothed and insinuated themselves like those of a woman.

He was persuasive, for his soul, mobile and sensitive, had always in its accent the truth and impression of the moment.

Devoted to the sex, and easily enamoured, his experience with them had imbued him with one of their highest qualities--pity.