He took pride in his work.

And they never wasted their energies in rolling out, platitudinally, such ideas as that Christ is the Son of God in virtue of being himself uncreated, &c.

My dear Daughter is what I call a little stupidstitious in her religious observances', he wrote shortly after his ninety-second birthday.

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]