You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

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

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.