It is a great pleasure to see you to-day.

It is just so in civil life, and the man has to be a decent man, a square man, a man who acts square by his neighbors, fairly by the State, or he cannot amount to anything;

I hardly think that you yourselves can realize what a wonderful State it is, a State as large and as diversified as many an Old World empire.

Most of all I have enjoyed seeing you, the men and women of California.

I am impressed, as every man must be, with what our nation is to have within its borders a State such as this.

I congratulate you upon all the crops, but especially upon the children.

There is no patent recipe for making a good citizen any more than there is any patent recipe for making a successful man.

Lying out at night under those giant Sequoias was lying in a temple built by no hand of man, a temple grander than any human architect could by any possibility build.

The future of the State depends not upon what is material, for that you can produce if you have the heart, the hand, and the head to do it; it depends upon the quality of heart, hand and head in the average American.

I want to say a word to the teachers.

All kinds of honorable work entitle those following them to honor.

One lesson of that brotherhood is the self-respect that respects others.

I have enjoyed to the full my visit to California.

Play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all.

I thank you most heartily for your kindness in coming to greet me

You see, in '98 we had a difficulty from which you were wholly free in '61, because with us there was not enough war to go around.

You need various qualities to make a State great, a nation great.

It is particularly a pleasure to be in a State already great, and yet with an infinitely greater future before it.