Henry Cabot Lodge: “But to suppose that in other respects he belonged to the ranks of mediocrity is not only a contradiction in terms, but…”

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

But his own personal ideals he never attempted to thrust upon the world until the day came when they were to be translated into realities of action.

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…

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