Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.