LXVI
Clara Barton—loved and honored as perhaps no other woman of her day. Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger.
Switzerland is an armed neutrality in which one has faith.
Clara Barton.
The Red Cross was chosen out of compliment to the Swiss Republic; the Swiss colors being a white cross on a red ground. The badge chosen were those colors reversed. Clara Barton.
Romance is the poetry of literature. Madame Necker.
Romance is always young. Whittier.
Romance—the parent of golden dreams. Byron.
The Red Cross seems to have become the milder romance of war.
Clara Barton.
Love took up the glass of time. Tennyson.
Love will find out the way. Alfred Noyes.
Love took up the harp of life. Locksley Hall.
Love conquers all things. Virgil.
All mankind loves a lover. Emerson.
True love is better than glory. Thackeray.
Love is the beginning of everything. F. W. Boreham.
None but the brave and beautiful can love. Bailey.
Love rules the camp, the court, the grove.
Lay of the Last Minstrel.
A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable.
Shakespeare.
Hail wedded love,
Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets. Milton.
Love’s history, as Life’s, is ended not by marriage.
Bayard Taylor.
Love is greater than war, truer than steel, stronger than fear or danger of death. Clara Barton.