For personal adornment Clara Barton cared little, choosing green dresses in her youth; and ornaments of bright red, for cheer, in her older years. CORRA BACON-FOSTER, Author. Dress changes manners. VOLTAIRE. Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. FRANKLIN. Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly. SMOLLETT. To live to dress well indicates a fool. DR. A. E. WINSHIP. The plainer the dress with greater luster does beauty appear. LORD FAIRFAX. Beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes plainest. STERNE. Those who think that, in order to dress well, it is necessary to dress extravagantly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes feminine beauty as simplicity. GEORGE D. PRENTICE. A plain, genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery, in the eyes of the judicious and sensible. GEORGE WASHINGTON. Elizabeth, who died the happy owner of 3,000 dresses, issued a solemn proclamation against extravagance in dress. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. loveliness Needs not foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned most. THOMSON—_Autumn_. We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry and keeps our larder lean. COWPER. The dress that shows taste and sentiment is elevating to the home, and is one of the most feminine means of beautifying the world. MISS OAKEY. A lady of genius will give a genteel air to her whole dress by a well fancied suit of knots, as a judicious writer gives to a whole sentence by a single expression. GAY. A rich dress is not worth a straw to one who has a poor mind. AZ ZUBAIDI. ’Tis the mind that makes the body rich. SHAKESPEARE. I wear what I want to. CLARA BARTON. THE ART OF DRESSING—CLARA BARTON’S INDIVIDUALITY Dress is a sentiment, sentiment of an occasion. Dress is an expression of the attitude of the mind as to propriety, necessary to accomplish results. Like smiles, dress is an expression of the intelligence of the wearer. Dress is an art, one of the highest of the arts. Dress has to do with the form divine and, whether dress be for good or ill, depends on the mind that fashions it. Court dress, then the want of _dress_, Clara Barton disliked and on one occasion would not conform. She thereby missed the honor of being a guest on a state occasion—proffered her by the world’s greatest queen.