A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

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.

The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.