"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 mankin..."
"I have come to California; I have seen; and I have been conquered by California's citizens and California's Governor."
"There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship."
"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"
"I want you to play hard without encroaching on your work."
"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."
"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 s..."
"Let me thank you for coming out to see me, and say how I have enjoyed coming here."
"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."
"Every decent American ought to be proud of the army and the navy of Uncle Sam."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is not enough to have mere efficiency."
"There is but one real way in which any man can be helped, and that is by teaching him to help himself."
