All the errors he ever committed, whether in public or in private life, in political action or in regard to money obligations, came from moral weakness.

He was deficient in that intensity of conviction which carries men beyond and above all triumphs of statesmanship, and makes them the embodiment of the great moral forces which move the world.

If Mr.Webster's moral power had equalled his intellectual greatness, he would have had no rival in our history.

But this combination and balance are so rare that they are hardly to be found in perfection among the sons of men.

The very fact of his greatness made his failings all the more dangerous and unfortunate.