Consider the remarkable phenomenon of excellence in three unkindred, one
might have thought incompatible, forms of public speech,--that of the
forum, with its double audience of bench and jury, of the halls of
legislation, and of the most thronged and tumultuous assemblies of the
people. Consider, further, that this multiform eloquence, exactly as his
words fell, became at once so much accession to permanent literature in
the strictest sense,--solid, attractive, rich,--and ask how often in the
history of public life such a thing has been exemplified.--Rufus Choate.

The noblest monument to Daniel Webster is in his works. As a repository of
political truth and practical wisdom, applied to the affairs of
government, I know not where we shall find their equal. The works of Burke
naturally suggest themselves to the mind, as the only writings in our
language that can sustain the comparison.--Edward Everett.

He writes like a man who is thinking of his subject, and not of his style,
and thus he wastes no time upon the mere garb of his thoughts. His style
is Doric, not Corinthian. His sentences are like shafts hewn from the
granite of his own hills,--simple, massive, strong. We may apply to him
what Quinctilian says of Cicero, that a relish for his writings is itself
a mark of good taste.--George S. Hillard.

He taught the people of the United States, in the simplicity of common
understanding, the principles of the Constitution and government of the
country, and he wrought for them, in a style of matchless strength and
beauty, the literature of statesmanship. He made his language the very
household words of a nation. They are the library of the people. They are
the school-book of the citizen.--John D. Long.