Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

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 think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

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.