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. Work ye, and God will work. JOAN OF ARC. Life is a great bundle of little things. O. W. HOLMES. Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things. SIR HUMPHREY DAVY. Nothing is of greater value than a single day. GOETHE. Life is but a day at most. BURNS. Life is a short day, but it is a working day. HANNAH MOORE. Living is doing. CLARA BARTON. “Even while we say there is nothing we can do, we stumble over opportunities for service that we are passing by in our tear-blinded, self-pity.” CLARA BARTON. I have had more work than I could do lying _around my feet_, and try to get it out of my way so I can go on to the next. CLARA BARTON. There is but one method, and that is hard labor. SIDNEY SMITH. If God works, Madam, you can afford to work also. JULIA WARD HOWE. Clara Barton was a worker from infancy. She gave to the world nearly a century of work, taking neither vacation nor recreation. ALICE HUBBARD. Women, always—as a rule—have worked harder than men. CLARA BARTON. I do hope I may live long enough to get the story of my life and my life’s work in shape for publication. I am doing this ill in bed (at 90 years of age), sometimes working until two or three o’clock in the morning. CLARA BARTON. ONE DAY WITH CLARA BARTON How so much was accomplished in the lifetime of one woman may be understood by reading “One Day with Clara Barton,” as described by herself in a personal letter to a friend: