It is very common for old people to grow careless about their personal appearance, and their style of conversation; but Friend Hopper was remarkably free from such faults.  He was exceedingly pure in his mind, and in his personal habits.  He never alluded to any subject that was unclean, never made any indelicate remark, or used any unseemly expression.  There was never the slightest occasion for young people to feel uneasy concerning what he might say.  However lively his mood might be, his fun was always sure to be restrained by the nicest sense of natural propriety.  He shaved, and took a cold plunge-bath every day.  Not a particle of mud or dust was allowed to remain upon his garments.  He always insisted on blacking his own shoes; for it was one of his principles not to be waited upon, while he was well enough to wait upon himself.  They were always as polished as japan; and every Saturday night, his silver buckles were made as bright as a new dollar, in readiness to go to meeting the next day.  His dress was precisely like that worn by William Penn.  At the time I knew him, I believe he was the only Quaker in the country, who had not departed from that model in the slightest degree.  It was in fact the dress of all English gentlemen, in King Charles’s time; and the only peculiarity of William Penn was, that he wore it without embroidery or ornament of any kind, for the purpose of protesting against the extravagance of the fashionable world.  Therefore, the spirit of his intention and that of other early Friends, would be preserved by wearing dress cut according to the prevailing mode, but of plain materials, and entirely unornamented.  However, Friend Hopper was attached to the ancient costume from early association, and he could not quite banish the idea that any change in it would be a degree of conformity to the fashions of the world.  The long stockings, and small clothes buckled at the knee, were well adapted to his finely formed limbs; and certainly he and his lady-like Hannah, in their quaint garb of the olden time, formed a very agreeable picture.

He had no peculiarities with regard to eating or drinking.  He always followed the old-fashioned substantial mode of living, to which he had been accustomed in youth, and of which moderation in all things was the rule.  For luxuries he had no taste.  He thought very little about his food; but when it was before him, he ate with the vigorous appetite natural to strong health and very active habits.  When his health failed for a time in Philadelphia, and he seemed wasting away to a shadow, his physician recommended tobacco.  He found great benefit from it, and in consequence of the habit then formed he became an inveterate smoker, and continued so till he was past seventy years old.