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

Children’s plays are not sports, and should be regarded as their most serious actions. Montague.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. I Corinthians.

A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature. C. Lamb.

Sweet childish days, that were as long

As twenty days are now.

S. Wordsworth.

The scenes of childhood are memories of future years.

J. O. Choules.

I do not like to beat my children—the world will beat them.

Elihu Burritt.