A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
Florence NightingaleWoman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
Florence NightingaleThe very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence NightingaleThe specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
Florence NightingaleWomen never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852
Florence Nightingale