A. Lincoln, January 2, 1863.
My “duties?” Receiving and shaking hands with two thousand persons, sitting down to the May breakfast at one o’clock with eleven hundred—leaving the table at four P. M.
Clara Barton, May 3, 1910.
All speaking terrifies me. Clara Barton.
Formality and parade I hate. Clara Barton.
Vain pomp and glory of the world
I hate ye. King Henry VIII.
Who was it that said that life is three-fourths conduct? Matthew Arnold, I think. Bishop William F. Mcdowell.
While Clara Barton’s religion was real, it was a thing expressed not in words nor creeds, but almost wholly in deeds.
Reverend Percy H. Epler.