Intellectual.

His mental faculties had the same quality of distinction as his appearance. He had a predilection for great things and high themes. His mind had affinities with grandeurs. Through all the declamation of the French poet he felt the greatness of Victor Hugo, and he keenly resented an irreverent biography of him that contained sentences which, he probably felt, might be applied to himself. He admired the theatrical proclamations of Napoleon. He had natural elevations, rose without an effort, and sustained himself, like the albatross he so well described, with hardly a stroke of the pinion. He was born to soar.