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

Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.

Women 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

Never give nor take an excuse.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.