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.

For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.