What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...