Never give nor take an excuse.

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.