The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.