"He gave proof also in this capacity of his extraordinary memory.
Every morning and even he had to call over the roll of the students in alphabetical order, and this he did with more than three hundred of them without looking at his register or even making a mistake.
Gifted with an extraordinary penetration, with a power of reasoning wichi was as vigorous as it was logical, with a memory so tenacious that nothins was forgotten, and an imagination so brilliant that his very soul seemed to be on fire, he possesed an assemblage of gifts and qualities which Providence awards to only a few exceptional natures. The result was, that he was determined to learn evrything: literature, history, philosophy, the exact and natural sciences, besides eloquence, foreign languages and poetry."