Henry Cabot Lodge: “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…”

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

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

No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.

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.