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

A stately city and a sweet-voiced bird.

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How age is a matter of individual commendation I have never been able to see. Clara Barton.

We have no control over the beginning of life and, unless criminally, none over its ending. Clara Barton.

It is not my fault, if my gray hairs are not honorable.

John B. Gough.

One is as old as his strength. Clara Barton.

We can neither hasten, nor arrest, age. Clara Barton.

Let work be thy measure of life. W. E. H. Lecky.

We live in deeds, not years—we should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.