Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

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

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

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.