Albert Beveridge: “No morn ever dawned more favorably than ours did; and no day was ever more clouded than the present....”

There was about him so little of 'the insolence of office,' and so much of the benignity of the man, that his presence always produced ... the most delightful impressions.

There can be little doubt that a majority of the people did not favor the Constitution when adopted by the Convention and ratified by the States.

In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.

Genius, and learning, and consummate skill, Moulding each thought, obedient to the will; Affections pure, as e'er warmed human breast, And love, in blessing others, doubly blest; Virtue unspotted, uncorrupted truth, Gentle in age, and…