He relished more a quiet talk with an old friend in his home at Chappaqua than all the glare of public notoriety.

"Come up," he often said to me, "and spend a Saturday at the farm.

The good boys do come and see me up there sometimes." Probably no man lived a purer life than Horace Greeley.

He was the most devoted of husbands to one of the most eccentric of wives.

His defenses of the spiritual sanctity of marriage in reply to Dale Owen are among the most powerful productions of his ever powerful pen.