I remember very little that he said.
One thing was, when the backwardness or forwardness of the season was spoken of, that there was a day--I think it was June 15--when, in every year vegetation was at about the same condition of forwardness, whether the spring were early or late.

A gentleman who was in the room said: "You have the cool breezes of the sea at Marshfield ?" "There, as at other sea places," replied Mr.Webster.

When he rose to go, he said: "I have the honor to be a member of the Young Men's Whig Club of Boston.

I must be in my place in the ranks." I heard him also in Faneuil Hall, in the autumn of 1844, after the elections in Maine and Pennsylvania and in the South had made certain the defeat of Mr.Clay.

I remember little that he said, except from reading the speech since.
What chiefly impressed the audience was the quotation from Milton, so well known now: What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not be overcome.
I also saw Mr.Webster at the inauguration of Edward Everett as President of Harvard, April 30, 1846.