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

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

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

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

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.