The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
Florence NightingaleAll disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.
Florence Nightingale