“ Peabody was probably more widely known and loved by graduates of Harvard than any other man connected with that institution. His dead will come as a shock to thousands of Harvard College graduates, in whose hearts he had held an affectionate place during the last thirty years. ”

“ No man was more popular with the undergraduates than was he, and all who knew him regretted when he was compelled some years ago to retire from active participation in college work. No professor was more warmly cheered at the class-day gather of the graduating class about the old tree back of Hollis Hall than was Dr. Peabody. In the Harvard catalogue he is put down as "Preacher to the University and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus." ”

“ Though in the dogmatic sense a Unitarian, he lived for interests which are common to the whole Christian Church. His influence was always more persuasive than person, always gentle, always manly, always rightly directed. ”