I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

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.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.