Not at all that he was over-anxious about the improvement of his class, or about the degree of attention with which they listened to him, or the success which might eventually crown his labours.

Such little matters of detail never troubled him much.

His teaching was as the German philosophy calls it, 'subjective'; it was to benefit himself, not others.

He was a learned egotist.

He was a well of science, and the pulleys worked uneasily when you wanted to draw anything out of it.