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. Lincoln.

There are other altars than that of Venus on which to light your fires—work, incessant, hard, earnest work. Sir William Osler.

How much of the sweets of life one loses in the rush of it.

Clara Barton.

I lost two months entire, but the time went on and spun its web each day. Clara Barton.

The gray haired military chieftain, whom all would recognize were I to name him, was correct when he once said to me: “Strange as it may seem, the days of ‘rest’ at the field are the hardest days.”

Clara Barton.

I always had a passion for service. Clara Barton.

Honest labor bears a lovely face. Thomas Decker.

Labor: All labor is noble and holy. Frances Sargent Osgood.