I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.