Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

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.

You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.