Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

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

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.