I founded the American Red Cross.

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.