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

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

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

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.