He was a man of an exceedingly sweet, gracious and affectionate nature, loving as a child, yet as men of such natures often are, thoroughly manly.

He was incapable of any meanness or conscious wrong-doing.

He had a very pleasant and ready wit.

The people of Middlesex County, especially of Concord, were very fond of him, and would have kept him in public life as long as he desired.
But his heath was not good in Washington.

The climate of the place and the bad air of the House were unfavorable.