Good name, in man or woman, is the immediate jewel of their souls. Othello.
Why persecutest thou me? Acts.
Those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
King Henry VIII.
Miss Barton witnessed the work of the Red Cross during 1870. Mabel T. Boardman—In “Under the Red Cross Flag at Home and Abroad.”
In 1870–71 Clara Barton attached herself by invitation to the foreign Red Cross, and in that relation was actually in the Red Cross work during the entire Franco-Prussian war.
Red Cross Committee.
My physical strength had long ceased to exist, but on the borrowed force of love and memory I strove with might and main—I walked its hospitals day and night; I served in its camps, and I marched with its men; and I know whereof I speak.
Clara Barton.