Wasn't he the best and noblest and most high-principled of men?
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
With the purpose of advancing the cause of abstract right, but with the result of sacrificing all that was best, most honest, and most high-principled in national politics, the Abolitionists joined hands with Northern roughs and Southern slavocrats to elect the man who was, excepting Tyler, the very smallest of the line of small presidents who came in between Jackson and Lincoln.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
He was sadly hampered by his affliction, but he was an accomplished, high-principled, sensitive fellow, of whom one of his companions declared that "he was the purest-minded man I ever knew."
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann