The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

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

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

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