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

Great sorrows speak not. C. Marat.

The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it. Talmud.

Suspect that sorrow which is anxious to show itself. Ruzzik.

Some grief shows much love

But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

Romeo and Juliet.

Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living and the dead knows it not. Xenophon.

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

Rev. D. L. Moody.

I cannot go to Heaven until my work is done. Clara Barton.