I do not want you to turn out prigs; I do not want you to turn out the self-conscious.

The more efficient a man is the more dangerous he is if that efficiency is not guided by the proper type of spirit, by the proper sense of moral responsibility.

I have enjoyed being in California for the last week, and it has been the greatest possible pleasure.

No law that the wit of man has ever devised ever has made or ever will make the fool wise, the coward brave, or the weakling strong.

Let me thank you for coming out to see me, and say how I have enjoyed coming here.

It will be a bad day for this country and a worse day for all educative institutions in this country if ever such a call is made, and the men of college training do not feel it peculiarly incumbent upon them to respond.

Every decent American ought to be proud of the army and the navy of Uncle Sam.

It is a fine thing to have before a body of students men who by their practice have rendered it unnecessary that they should preach

It is not enough to have mere efficiency.

I think I was a fairly good American a week ago when I came into your State, but I am a better one now.

There is no royal road to good government.

It speaks well for our nation that men and women should desire during their lives to devote the fortunes which they were able to acquire or to inherit because of our system of government, to objects so entirely worthy and so entirely…

There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions in mankind.

It would be hard to overestimate the amount of good work done by the Young Men's Christian Associations and the Young Women's Christian Associations.

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship.

With decency there must go the power practically to apply it in life, practically to work it out, and to work it out for the benefit of others as well as for one's self.

I am glad to have the chance of acknowledging my obligations to him, and I am also glad that when I ask you to strive toward productive scholarship, toward productive citizenship, I can use the president of the university as an example.

And you, men and women, who have had the advantages of a college training are not to be excused if you fail to do not as well as, but if you fail to do more than the average man outside who has not had your advantages.