Clara Barton loved everything that lived. Roanoke (Va.) News.
Bugs and other insects, as well as squirrels and other animals, gave her hourly enjoyment. Clara used to say, “these are my friends, they have as good a right to live as I have.”
“Sister Harriette” L. Reed.
Her love for the farmyard and its animals never left her.
Percy H. Epler.
It was her heroic soul and deep woman sympathy that made Clara Barton strong and brave. William E. Barton.
Nothing endures but personal qualities. Walt Whitman.
Sir John Franklin,—who never turned his back upon a danger, yet of that tenderness that he would not brush away a mosquito.
William Matthews.
I too have a kitty and he is pretty much master of the house. He doesn’t speak German, although I have no doubt he understands it. Clara Barton.