"Our opposition on principle does not prevent our acknowledging that The Army has done much good to the poorest of the poor."
German Daily Paper of Berlin
"With the greatest pity he combined the most iron discipline, and sacrificed to the happiness of all every personal enjoyment."
Germania of Berlin
"But the light that always led him out of the deepest darkness to the day was his sympathy for his brethren, whose misery in the East End of London so deeply laid hold of him."
Daily Look-round of Berlin
"Perhaps the most remarkable fact about him was that with all his gigantic plans he never lost himself in phantasy, but always knew how to keep himself down to the practical."
Strassburg Post
"Hard upon himself, he exercised the same severity upon others, from the highest of his Officers to the least in his Army."
Schwalish Mercury of Stuttgart