"Soon afterwards there entered, with a shambling, loose, irregular, almost unsteady gait, a tall, lank, lean man, considerably over six feet in height, with stooping shoulders, long pendulous arms, terminating in hands of extraordinary dimensions, which, however, were far exceeded in proportion by his feet....

The impression produced by the size of his extremities, and by his flapping and wide-projecting ears, may be removed by the appearance of kindliness, sagacity, and awkward bonhomie of his face ...

eyes dark, full, and deeply set, are penetrating, but full of an expression which almost amounts to tenderness....

A person who met Mr.Lincoln in the street would not take him to be what--according to usages of European society--is called a 'gentleman' ...

but, at the same time, it would not be possible for the most indifferent observer to pass him in the street without notice."-- _My Diary_, I, pp.