Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.