In temper indeed, so far as we can judge from the few stories which lingered among his friends, he was a generous, kindly-hearted man, with pleasant and winning manners which atoned for a certain awkwardness of person, and with a constancy of friendship which won him a host of devoted adherents.

But no touch either of love or hate swayed him from his course.

The student of Machiavelli had not studied the "Prince" in vain.

He had reduced bloodshed to a system.

Fragments of his papers still show us with what a business-like brevity he ticked off human lives among the casual "remembrances" of the day.