The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

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

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.