We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
Florence NightingaleReligious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
Florence NightingaleIt may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
Florence Nightingale