Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

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

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

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

Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.