LV
How age is a matter of individual commendation I have never been able to see. Clara Barton.
We have no control over the beginning of life and, unless criminally, none over its ending. Clara Barton.
It is not my fault, if my gray hairs are not honorable.
John B. Gough.
One is as old as his strength. Clara Barton.
We can neither hasten, nor arrest, age. Clara Barton.
Let work be thy measure of life. W. E. H. Lecky.
We live in deeds, not years—we should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Philip J. Bailey.
Although she had lived more than ninety years Clara Barton never gave the impression to anyone that she was an old woman. ‘Her age knows no time.’ She gave to the world nearly a century of work. Alice Hubbard.
A life spent worthily should be measured by a noble line—by deeds, not years. Pizarro.
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, but in a different dress. H. W. Longfellow.