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.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

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.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.