The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

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

May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions