That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

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.

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

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.