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

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

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.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.