I never saw him tired.

I never found his mind lacking in inspiration, even when weary in body, nor when violently exercised, nor when angry.

I never saw him diverted from one matter by another, turning from that under discussion to one he had just finished or was about to take up.

The news, good or bad, he received from Egypt, did not divert his mind from the civil code, nor the civil code from the combinations which the safety of Egypt required.

Never did a man more wholly devote himself to the work in hand, nor better devote his time to what he had to do.