"He is an eager, vivid fellow, full of joy, bubbling over with spirits.

His sympathies are quick as an electric flash." "He throws himself into the occasion, whatever it may be, with his whole heart," said the second, in praise of the man of his choice.
"He makes the best of everything," said the third, speaking of his own most cherished acquaintance.
The three were traveling correspondents of great English journals, who had visited every quarter of the world and talked with all kinds of men.

The papers were examined and all were found to contain the name of a prominent lawyer in Melbourne, Australia.
"If it were not for respect for human opinions," said Madame de Stael to M.Mole, "I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, while I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen." Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have originated.
"One moonlight evening in winter," writes the biographer of Beethoven, "we were walking through a narrow street of Bonn.

'Hush!' exclaimed the great composer, suddenly pausing before a little, mean dwelling, 'what sound is that?
It is from my Sonata in F.

Hark! how well it is played!' "In the midst of the finale there was a break, and a sobbing voice cried: 'I cannot play any more.