Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I can stand out the war with any man.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.