a man who likes to think - and who does not like to think. who has time for ideas but is peculiarly at home in the world of things. who has no sense of his own importance but no vague notions, either, of his own abilities. who has no airs and graces but a natural social ease - he is at home with people too. who has the knack of knowing and not knowing
"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."