George F. Hoar: “Under these difficulties, it is greatly to his honor that so much of public good was accomplished in his time, and that…”

There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.

Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.

I took a great interest in the founding of the famous Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and I was the first person named in its Act of Incorporation.

Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.