Ambition is a captain, appetite a camp-follower; for which reason the President was one who would never lead, never oppose a movement.

Essentially, he was of the candidate class.

Indeed, he had, as an individual, the best characteristics of a canal.

He was narrow, even, currentless, with a mental fall of two feet in the mile.

He lived conservatively between his banks, and went never so foolishly lucid as to show you how shallow he was.