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

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

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.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.