The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

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

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.