The history of the last thirty years, its manners and customs and its leading events and inventions, cannot be written truthfully without reference to the records which he has left, to his special articles and to his letters.

Read over again the Queen's Jubilee, the Czar's Coronation, the March of the Germans through Brussels, and see for yourself if I speak too zealously, even for a friend, to whom, now that R.H.D.is dead, the world can never be the same again.
But I did not set out to estimate his genius.

That matter will come in due time before the unerring tribunal of posterity.
One secret of Mr.Roosevelt's hold upon those who come into contact with him is his energy.

Retaining enough for his own use (he uses a good deal, because every day he does the work of five or six men), he distributes the inexhaustible remainder among those who most need it.
Men go to him tired and discouraged, he sends them away glad to be alive, still gladder that he is alive, and ready to fight the devil himself in a good cause.

Upon his friends R.H.D.had the same effect.
And it was not only in proximity that he could distribute energy, but from afar, by letter and cable.