It came straight from his heart, and he kindled in the bosoms of his listeners the ardor of his own heart.

He is the only advocate I ever heard who had the imperial power which would subdue an unwilling and hostile jury.

If it be new to his audience, he adds to it a newer delight still by his matchless skill as a narrator-- a skill almost the rarest of all talents among public speakers.

The sympathy and concurrence of his time is, with his own mind, joint parent of his work.

There can be no worse influence upon the youth of the Republic than that which shall induce them to approve sentiments, not because they are true, but only because they are eloquently said.

But the grasp was a warm one, and the ceremony and the hand-shake conveyed his cordial respect and warmth of regard.

But Brother Bacon had the kindliest of hearts.

Some of his ablest and most far-reaching decisions were written after he was eighty years old.

Judge Metcalf's legal opinions will read, I think, in the future, as well as those of any Judge of his time.

But he had little respect for any false notions of gentility, and had a habit of going straight at any difficulty himself.

He became a very profound lawyer, always mastering the learning of the case, but never leaning too much upon authorities.

But they do understand the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule, and they know and they love and they practise the great virtues which the Apostle tells us are to abide.

But I like to think he will be sent on some errands like that of the presence which came to Ben Adhem with a great wakening light, rich and like a lily in bloom, to tell him that the name of him who loved his fellow men led all the names…

You are not one of them, my dear sir, but there are those who will not believe that I am an anti-slavery man unless I repeat the declaration once a week.

You know, that as early as 1830 in my speech on Foote's resolution, I drew upon me the anger of enemies, and a regret of friends by what I said against slavery, and I hope that from that day to this my conduct has been consistent.

Van Buren even on this very question of slavery, for I believe that General Taylor is an honest man and I am sure he is not so much committed on the wrong side, as I know Mr.

I cannot concur even with my best friends in giving the lead in a great question to a notorious opponent to the cause.

Van Buren to be essentially wrong, and it seems to me that in consenting to form a party under him Whigs must consent to bottom their party on one idea only, and also to adopt as the representative of that idea a head chosen on a strange…

But if I am asked whether I will advise the convention at Philadelphia to nominate, or if nominated I will recommend the people to support for the office of President of the United States, a swearing, fighting, frontier colonel, I only say…

He likened the case of the husband bound to an adulterous wife to the old Hebrew punishment of fastening a living man to a corpse.

The meeting which gathered at Worcester in pursuance of the above call, inaugurated for the first time a party for the sole object of resisting the extension of slavery.

But the Free Soil Party, of which the present Republican party is but the continuation under a change of name, determined that no person should receive its support for any national office, who himself continued his association with either…

I do not think anybody, except the very intimate friends of Charles Francis Adams, was aware of his great abilities until he manifested them amid the difficulties of the English Mission.

In the intimacy of that relation I got a knowledge of the inmost soul and heart of a class of men who I think constituted what was best in American citizenship, a knowledge which has been a great educational advantage to me and valuable in…

He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.