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Clara Barton, beloved by every one who knew her. Hon. Peter Voorhees DeGraw, U. S. Fourth Postmaster General.
And memory turns to him fondly
Whom we call by the name of Friend!—
Carl F. Rosecrans.
The chiefest of human virtues,—loyalty to friends.
C. S. Young in The Richmond Terminal.
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
A. Lincoln.
Friendship and love
Take second place to loyalty and honor. Calderon.
Friendship is necessary to life. Bishop Wm. F. McDowell.
Friendship’s the wine of life. Young’s Night Thoughts.
Friendship is a sheltering tree. S. T. Coleridge.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Our wisest friends are life’s best book. Calderon.
Poor is he, and beggar, that hath no friends at all. Gracian.
The face of an old friend is like a ray of sunshine through dark and gloomy clouds. A. Lincoln.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
Shakespeare.
And can true friendship be tested, if not in the hour of misfortune? The Mayor of St. Petersburg to Clara Barton.