The Very First Requirement In A Hospital

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.

Women Have No Sympathy And My Experience Of Women Is Almost As Large As Europe.

If I Could Give You Information Of My Life It Would Be To Show How A Woman Of Very Ordinary Ability Has Been Led By God In Strange And Unaccustomed Paths To Do In His Service What He Has Done In Her. And If I Could Tell You All, You Would See How God Has Done All, And I Nothing. I Have Worked Hard, Very Hard, That Is All; And I Have Never Refused God Anything.

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.

It Is The Unqualified Result Of All My Experience With The Sick That, Second Only To Their Need Of Fresh Air, Is Their Need Of Light; That, After A Close Room, What Hurts Them Most Is A Dark Room And That It Is Not Only Light But Direct Sunlight They Want.