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.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852