My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.

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

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

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

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.