- “he was waylaid by married women in every provincial town …where he played. His face was so youthful, yet so manly…”
- “placed himself beyond the boundaries of civilized law”
- “I was considered by all my masters and by my father as a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect”
- “he nearly starved himself in order to give his younger brother, Louis, a military education. He was devotedly fond of children…”