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

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

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

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

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

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Unnecessary noise is the cruelest abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

Never give nor take an excuse.

Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

A woman has nothing but her affections, and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.