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

Old wood to burn, old wine to drink.

Old friends to trust, old books to read.

Alonzo of Arragon.

Miss Barton would not rewrite a public address; on looking it over, not a sentence, not a word, could be improved by changing.

J. B. Hubbell, Assistant to Clara Barton.

She who desires information can sit down, read, and obtain it.

Clara Barton.

Persons who use their brains, tongues and pens for the improvement of their kind, are those of whom biographies may profitably be written. Clara Barton.

Miss Barton is in the front rank of American lecturers—excelled by none. Aurora Beacon.

The Secretary to President McKinley used to say that in his correspondence at the White House the letters of Clara Barton excelled all others in literary merit. The Author.