He was endowed with a strong sense of humour and a love of paradox carried to an extreme.
In their society he would talk well and showed a keen sense of humour.
Grave as most of his writings are, they include a short description of a crossing from Jersey to Granville, in which he satirizes English character and customs, and reveals an unexpected sense of humour.
With an intense capacity for visualizing the unseen, and a kindly dignity, he combined a large sense of humour.
Lysias was a man of kindly and genial nature, warm in friendship, loyal to country, with a keen perception of character and a fine though strictly controlled sense of humour.