Henry Cabot Lodge: “No man ever had a more abundant sense of humor--joyous, irrepressible humor--and it never deserted him.”

He accomplished this great labor more successfully by honest and lawful methods than if he had taken the path of the strong-handed savior of society, and his work in this field did more for the welfare of his country than all his battles.

It is a hard thing to beat an opposing army, but it is equally hard to bring human jealousies and ambitions into the narrow path of self-sacrifice and subordination.

There is nothing in human beings at once so sane and so sympathetic as a sense of humor.

It was a difficult thing for men who had been born colonists to rise to a sense of national opportunities, but Washington passed at a single step from being a Virginian to being an American, and in so doing he stood alone.