His wavering purpose; his unsettled will; his violent and fictitious emotions; his great, tormless thoughts; his intuition, the greatest that has ever been, seeing right through a thought and expressing it as if the thought itself spoke living an alien life down to its blood and flesh and speaking from it as the man himself could never have done; his power of observation, gathering a whole thing into one paramount aspect; his practical ability born of his quick understanding of things... When the higher faculties of the mind are broken, in abeyance, or sluggish in their operation, the lower one assume an unwonted force. Thus his practical ability was the one thing that withstood the stress and pressure of life and lack of will. He could amass money who strove in vain to amass the completion of created beauty.