People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

I can stand out the war with any man.

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.