Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career.

[40] powers, as well as for his genial urbanity, his radiant smile, and graceful manner. Between him and Mr. Sumner, whose eager mind was open to the charming influences of such a sweet-tempered and learned jurist, a mutual sympathy at once arose, which gradually deepened into the sincerest friendship. How strong the tie between these two kindred spirits came to be, the reader may infer from the tribute paid to Mr. Justice Story in Mr. Sumner's elegant oration on “The Scholar, the Jurist, the Artist, the Philanthropist,” delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University on the twenty-seventh day of August, 1846.

“By the attraction of his name,” says Mr. Sumner, “students were drawn from remote parts of the Union; and the Law School, which had been a sickly branch, became the golden mistletoe of our ancient oak. Besides learning unsurpassed in his profession, which he brought to these added duties, he displayed other qualities not less important in the character of a teacher,--goodness, benevolence, and a willingness to teach. Only a good man can be a teacher,--only a benevolent man, only a man willing to teach. He was filled with a desire to teach. He sought to mingle his mind with that of his pupil. He held it a blessed office to pour into the souls of the young, as into celestial urns, the ”