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.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

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

I can stand out the war with any man.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

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