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

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.