If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve happiness. Fichte.
He serves most who serves his country best. Alexander Pope.
They never fail who die in a good cause. Byron.
Coarseness and roughness lock doors and close hearts; courtesy, refinement and gentleness are “open sesame” at which bolts fly back and doors swing open. William Matthews.
The years of unsheltered days and nights, the sun and storm, the dews and damps have done their work and now with bitter tears I turn my face away from the land I have loved so well and seek in a foreign clime, perchance, a little of the good strength once lent me here. Clara Barton.
Reserve your energies, doing those little things that be in your way, each as well as you can, so that when God shall call you to do something good and great you will be ready to do the work quickly and well. Clara Barton.
We question whether there has been any man or woman in the whole world’s history who has been a greater blessing to mankind than Clara Barton. Topeka Daily Journal.
Clara Barton stands as the complete refutation of the spirit of the age that either great wealth, social position or political power is necessary to the achievement of success.
The Universalist Leader (Boston).
Life is giving one’s self to save others. Clara Barton.