By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
Florence NightingaleA want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
Florence NightingaleUnnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
Florence NightingaleThe only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
Florence Nightingale