Henry Cabot Lodge: “No man ever had a more abundant sense of humor--joyous, irrepressible humor--and it never deserted him.”

Men are the creatures of the time in which they live, and take their color from the conditions which surround them, as the chameleon does from the grass or leaves in which it hides.

The other idea which had grown in his mind during the weary siege was that the Tories were thoroughly dangerous and deserved scant mercy.

Washington was wholly free from the vulgar ambition of the usurper, and the desire of mere personal aggrandizement found no place in his nature.

Fortitude in misfortune is more common than composure in the hour of victory.