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I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

Edgar Allan Poe
Mind, Enthusiasm, Melancholy
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.104, Simon and Schuster
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.