Henry Cabot Lodge: “No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.”

He was unfailingly attractive, because he was always perfectly natural and his own unconscious self.

The blood of some ancestral Scotch covenanter or of some Dutch reformed preacher facing the tyranny of Philip of Spain was in his veins, and with his large opportunities and his vast audiences he was always ready to appeal for justice and…

Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.

He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.