Of any large views of social life, or of the means by which, and the objects for which, men should be governed, he was as innocent as a baby.

In a word, he was not an intellectual man.

All the high qualities which placed him on the pinnacle he occupied were qualities of the heart and not of the head.

They availed with admirable success to fit him for exercising a supreme influence over men, especially young men, in the field, and for all the duties of a guerilla leader.

They would not have sufficed to make him a great commander of armies; and did still less fit him for becoming a political leader.
Whom next shall I present to the reader from the portrait gallery of my reminiscences?
Come forward, Franz Pulszky, most genial, most large-hearted of philosophers and friends!--I can't say "guides," for though he was both the first, he was not the last, differing widely as we did upon--perhaps not most, but at all events--many large subjects.
I had known the lady whom Pulszky married in Vienna many years previously, and long before he knew her.