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

I think I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. Joyce Filmer.

The trees are monuments with a meaning, for they live gloriously just as did those for whom they are planted. Charles Lathrop Pack, President of the American Forestry Association.

The soil is right and the husbandman will not fail. Clara Barton, President The National First Aid.

There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate. South.

Life is war; eternal war with woes.

Young’s Night Thoughts.

Before any great national event I have always had the same dream.

I had it the other night; it is a ship sailing rapidly.

A. Lincoln.

Whichever way it ends, I have the impression that I shall not last long after it is over. A. Lincoln.