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.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

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

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.