Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...