Not really. He was a poor W.C. Fields imitator, and his arrogant comments about mastering the classical languages are inappropriate, given that he was a poor student of Latin and knew none Attic Greek. Whatever his merits as an orator and soldier, I think he was a piece of shit as a person of honest character.
TNP would like to get into a fistfight but as both a (i) lazy (ii) prudent person would not.