To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

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

Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

Never give nor take an excuse.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.