A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.
Florence NightingaleLittle 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.
Florence NightingaleA human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
Florence NightingaleWe 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.
Florence Nightingale