The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.

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

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.