"The features were very good. He had a capital forehead, a firm
nose, with full, wide nostril, eyes wonderfully beaming with
intellect and running over with humor and cheerfulness, and a
rather prominent mouth, strongly marked with sensibility. The head
was altogether well-formed and symmetrical, and the air and
carriage of it extremely spirited. The hair, so scant and grizzled
in later days, was then of a rich brown and the most luxuriant
abundance, and the bearded face of the last two decades had hardly
a vestige of hair or whisker, but there was that in the face, as I
first recollect it, which no time could change, and which remained
implanted on it unalterably to the last. This was the quickness,
keenness, and practical power, the eager, restless, energetic look
on each several feature, that seemed to tell so little of a student
or writer of books, and so much of a man of action and business in
the world. Light and motion flashed from every part of it."