He was a man of wonderful learning, -- I dare say the best Greek scholar of his generation, whether in Europe or America.

He was a very simple-hearted person in dealing with ordinary affairs.

But his conversation and his instruction in the class-room were full of wit and sense.
He used to tell a story, whether of his father or his grandfather I am not sure, that one night very late he was sitting in his warehouse alone when two men entered and told him they were come to kill him.

He asked them why they wished to kill him, and they told him that they had been hired by an enemy of his.

"Well," said the old man, "what are you to be paid ?" They told him the sum.