She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

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.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

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

I use the word nursing for want of a better.