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Clara Barton—a biography of absorbing interest.
Duluth (Minn.) Tribune.
Clara Barton wrote several golden pages in the history of the brotherhood of man. Houghton (Mich.) Gazette.
“Amici! diem perdidimus” (Friends! we have lost a day), said Titus when at the end of a day he had nothing memorable for his diary. The Author.
Nothing is of greater value than a single day. Goethe.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
George Dawson.
The diary is greatly relied on by the writers of history, but—
Charles Dudley Warner.
Tolstoi keeps a diary in which he notes down what he has been thinking. Translator for Tolstoi.
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small pane of clear glass. Varia—By Agnes Repplier.
A man’s diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.
John Quincy Adams.
A well kept diary is one of the most interesting productions of human industry—not the least benefit of a diary is that it produces a taste for writing. Reverend William Sutton, S. J.
We converse with the absent by letters, and with ourselves by diaries—many of our greatest characters in public life have left such monuments of their diurnal labors. Isaac Disraeli.
Her unpublished diaries and letters are my chief original sources of information that the book should come forth with the force of an autobiography. The Life of Clara Barton, by Epler.
Only two classes of people can keep diaries of unimportant things—those who never have time to do anything else and those who have stopped doing things. I have done neither. Clara Barton.
Clara Barton’s war diaries, and diaries of her travels, if published, would be eagerly read by the people and be of great historic interest. The Author.
Clara Barton could say with Seneca: “I keep an account of my expenses; I cannot affirm that I lose nothing, but I can tell you what I lose, and why, and in what manner.” The Author.