Henry Cabot Lodge: “He thought clearly, independently, and with originality and imagination.”

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

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 sacrifice face to face.

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

He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.