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

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

I envy the man who has a work worth doing and does it well;

Our government is based upon the rule of a self-respecting majority.

I should be ashamed of you if you were not

There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Our government has so far escaped the twin dangers of the older republics, government by a plutocracy or government by a mob, either of them absolutely alien to American ideals.

I pity no man because he has to work.

Success will come in the long run to the man or the nation possessing the attributes that have conquered success from the days when we first have written records of the nations of mankind.

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.

This is to be my last day in California, and I leave the State with the liveliest appreciation of the courtesy with which I have been received.

I want to see the average American citizen be in the future as he has been in the past, a decent man, doing no wrong.

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 am glad to meet all of you.

I should be ashamed of you if you were not, living in such a state as this.

It is the fact of doing the work well that counts, not the kind of work, as long as that work is honorable.

This State is in boundaries and resources greater than many an Old World empire; and think what it is to be a citizen of a Union in which a commonwealth like this is a State.

I only wish it had been possible to make it eight times as much instead.