do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
Florence NightingaleMoral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
Florence NightingaleFor what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
Florence NightingaleLet people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
Florence Nightingale