... People Have Founded Vast Schemes Upon

By Mortifying Vanity We Do Ourselves No Good. It Is The Want Of Interest In Our Life Which Produces It; By Filling Up That Want Of Interest In Our Life We Can Alone Remedy It.

Women Dream Till They Have No Longer The Strength To Dream; Those Dreams Against Which They So Struggle, So Honestly, Vigorously, And Conscientiously, And So In Vain, Yet Which Are Their Life, Without Which They Could Not Have Lived; Those Dreams Go At Last.

Do Not Engage In Any Paper Wars. You Will Convince Nobody And Arrive At No Satisfaction Yourself.

People Say The Effect Is Only On The Mind. It Is No Such Thing. The Effect Is On The Body, Too. Little As We Know About The Way In Which We Are Affected By Form, By Color, And Light, We Do Know This, That They Have An Actual Physical Effect. Variety Of Form And Brilliancy Of Color In The Objects Presented To Patients, Are Actual Means Of Recovery.

Women Should Have The True Nurse Calling, The Good Of The Sick First The Second Only The Consideration Of What Is Their 'place' To Do - And That Women Who Want For A Housemaid To Do This Or The Charwomen To Do That, When The Patient Is Suffering, Have Not The Making Of A Nurse In Them.