I can not tell you how much complimented I am by your coming in person to give me this greeting.
It is impossible for me to put into words the impressions I have received to-day.
I thank you with all my heart.
It is very inspiring, sir, to feel how the human spirit is refreshed again and again from its original sources.
We have been watchful of your heroic struggle and of your heroic suffering.
It is delightful to me to feel that I am taking some small part in accomplishing the realization of the ideals to which his life and thought...
It is delightful to feel how the voice of one people speaks to another through the mouth of men who have by some gift of God been lifted abo...
The overwhelming welcome, the spontaneous welcome, the welcome that so evidently came from the heart, has been profoundly moving to me, sir.
I am not thinking of particular settlements so much as I am of the general settlement.
I take off hat to the great people of Italy and tell them that my admiration is merged into friendship and affection.
YOU make my heart very warm indeed by a welcome like this.