Speaking of Quincy he said: "He would be reckoned among honorable men, though their number were reduced to that of the mouths of the Nile or the gates of Thebes." Felton, the Greek professor, was the heartiest and jolliest of men.

He was certainly one of the best examples of a fully rounded scholarship which this country or perhaps any country ever produced.

He gave before the Lowell Institute a course of lectures on Greece Ancient and Modern, into which is compressed learning enough to fill a large encyclopaedia.

He also edited two or three Greek plays and an edition of Homer, which was extensively used as a text-book.
Professor Felton was a very impulsive man, though of great dignity and propriety in his general bearing.

He had some theories of his own as to the matter of pure and correct English and was very much disgusted if anybody transgressed them.