He was a dreamer with a genius for business, a philosopher yet an organizer.

He pursued the tenor of his life with measured tread.
His domestic fabric was disfigured by none of the isolation and squalor which so often attend the confirmed celibate.

His home life was a model of order and decorum, his home as unchallenged as a bishopric, its hospitality, though select, profuse and untiring.

An elder sister presided at his board, as simple, kindly and unostentatious, but as methodical as himself.

He was a lover of books rather than music and art, but also of horses and dogs and out-of-door activity.
He was fond of young people, particularly of young girls; he drew them about him, and was a veritable Sir Roger de Coverley in his gallantries toward them and his zeal in amusing them and making them happy.