Life of Thomas Moore

) says that

"he won without seeming to court, instructed without seeming to teach, and he amused without labouring to be witty."

George Ticknor (

Life

, vol. i. p. 264)

"never met a man who so disarms opposition in discussion, as I have often seen him, without yielding an iota, merely by the unpretending simplicity and sincerity of his manner."

Sydney Smith (

Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith

, chap. x. p. 187) considered that his