Henry Cabot Lodge: “A spirit like this awakens in all men more than admiration, it kindles affection and appeal to every generous impulse.”

So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

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

His ideal of public service was to be found in his life, and as his life drew to its close he had to meet his ideal of sacrifice face to face.

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