But waking in the next world, the man perceives a letter on the way to himself announcing a large inheritance which would have been his had he but been patient.

Therefore the great novelist affirms that God makes such a man begin over again, only under harder conditions, the existence that here he has willfully shattered.

What a tragedy is his who, to save the present good, will lose the higher life.

Whittier expressed the fear that Daniel Webster saved his life only to lose it.

In his works the poet recalls the time when for genius of statesmanship and weight of mentality Webster's like was not upon our earth.