Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

I am deeply touched by the beautiful gift you have given me.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory…

I trust I came within them a fairly good American, and I leave them a better American.

I thank you for coming here and for giving me the privilege of joining with you today in these solemn ceremonies of commemoration.

The Y. M. C. A. stands for so much because it represents the work of men and women who to a generous enthusiasm for their fellows, to a lofty ideal of service for the Giver of good, and for all mankind, join the power to realize that ideal…

There is but one real way in which any man can be helped, and that is by teaching him to help himself.

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 are no other trees anywhere like the giant Sequoias; nowhere else is there a more beautiful forest than that which clothes the western slope of the Sierra.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 no patent recipe for getting good citizenship.

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.

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.