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

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

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

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.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

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