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

Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

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.

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

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.