Excerpt from Eulogy Pronounced at the Funeral of George Peabody, at Peabody, Massachusetts, 8 February, 1870

While I have been unwilling, my friends, wholly to decline the request of your Committee of Arrangements, or to seem wanting to any service which might, perchance, have gratified him, whom, in common with you all, I' have so honored and loved, - I have still felt deeply, and I cannot help feeling, at this moment, more deeply than ever before, that any words of mine or of others might well have been spared on this occasion.

The solemn tones of the organ, the plaintive notes of the funeral chant, the consoling lessons of the Sacred Scriptures, the fervent utterances of prayer and praise, - these would have seemed to me the only appropriate - I had almost said, the only endurable - interruptions of the silent sorrow which befits a scene like this.

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