There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

We 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.

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.