Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

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.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.