Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

XXVIII

Clara Barton—humanity is richer for her having lived.

Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press.

Life is a shuttle. Merry Wives of Windsor.

Life is a bubble. Wm. Browne.

Life is a miracle. King Lear.

Life is a walking shadow. Meredith.

Life is like a stroll on the beach. Thoreau.

Life is scarcely the twinkle of a star. Bayard Taylor.

Life lives only in success. Swift.

That life is long that answers life’s great end.

Young’s Night Thoughts.

For the multitude of failures I have encountered I am sorry.

Clara Barton.

Life is so short at best. Clara Barton.

It’s now three minutes past twelve and I am thirty-three. Alas, my friend, the years pass swiftly by, but I do not regret them so much for what I have done, as what I might have done. Byron.