I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

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

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.