We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.
Florence NightingaleThat Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
Florence NightingaleA human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
Florence Nightingale