He returned from the courts and Congresses to sit down with unaltered humility, in the church, or in the town-house, on the plain wooden bench, where Honor came and sat down beside him.

He was a man in whom so rare a spirit of justice visibly dwelt, that, if one had met him in a cabin or in a court, he must still seem a public man answering as a sovereign state to sovereign state; and might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw, -- 'that he was a consul from whom the fasces did not depart with the year, but in private seemed ever sitting in judgment on kings.'" But he would have liked better than anything else what was said of him in his official report by the President of the College he loved with that deep affection which her children felt for her in his time.

President Walker closes his annual report of December 31, 1856, as follows: "The undersigned could not conclude his report without allusion to the recent lamented death of the Honorable Samuel Hoar, a distinguished and justly influential member of this board,--venerable alike for his age and his virtues,--a devoted friend of the College which he has been able to serve in a thousand ways by the wisdom of his counsels and the weight of his character." Mr.Hoar was naturally conservative, as would be expected as an old Federalist who was educated at Harvard in the beginning of the nineteenth century.

His rules of public and private conduct were strict and austere.

He applied them more strictly to himself than to others.