I shall be glad that I shall not have any property to leave to my boys, of whom I have two, but only a good character and a pride in themselves and a good education; but for my daughter I am going to scrape together as much as I can give…

And now, my dear young ladies, I am delighted to have met you.

I wish that every woman in the world was so situated that she did not think it was necessary for her to marry if she did not want to.

I know it is generally supposed that those who inherit wealth are in the best situation for a future happy life—I mean in this world—but I venture to think that the best legacy that can be left to a young man is a good education and a good…

I am the last one to take a position against that old doctrine of the common law that there ought to be nothing to interfere with matrimony.

Now that is a proposition that I am prepared to defend against all comers.

I am not in favor of suffrage for women until I can be convinced that all the women desire it; and when they desire it I am in favor of giving it to them, and when they desire it they will get it too.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, excavate, injure or destroy any of the ruins or relics hereby declared to be a National Monument or to locate or settle upon any of the lands reserved and…

I mention you last because you are the most important.

We have passed through all the dangers of the navigation of the river.

I am very sure that the Speaker of the House...is charged with a deep responsibility in regard to this great question.

I am delighted to be present.

I thank you, my friends, from the bottom of my heart for this cordial reception.

It is a great pleasure to meet the people of St. Louis in this magnificent structure.

If you will give me a little quiet and a little time, I will bring that voice back from Texas.

We are on the eve of a great journey down the Mississippi River, and cursed be he who calls it a junket!

There would seem to be no reason why we should change the mode of disposing of agricultural land.

That electricity can be most cheaply produced by water power.

Let every project stand on its own bottom.

I think we are going to find that possible in the spirit which, I may say without invidious implication, is present here to-night—the spirit of State pride—which believes that there is nothing that the State cannot accomplish when it…

I like an optimist, and I like to sit next to one, and I like an optimist in a prince of the church, too.

With respect to the boll-weevil and the green fly, they come within the general welfare clause, and we are doing the best we can.

The Bishop says you would like a little help.

I am going to say to you what comes out of my heart—that I thank you for your very cordial reception.

If they are not optimists, we ought to give up altogether.