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

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

I was very limited as a women. Getting the men in the military to see that the medical facilities were unhealthy was very difficult, along with many other things such as getting a good education and also finding a good career.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.