Florence Nightingale

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

The world is quite right to nurse a poet through his illness, but not a statesman.

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

The patient's bed must be a sacred place.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

The amount of relief and pleasure experienced by the sick with clean air is incalculable.

I have lived a life of great waste, but I hope it has not been all waste.

The life of man is of no greater duration than the breath of his nostrils.

Reform is born of agony.

The sick are the greatest philosophers.

I am not a reformer, I am a statistician.

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea have been typhus cases.

Let the patient choose her own doctor.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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

The war is not ended.

Moral courage is more difficult to achieve than physical courage.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

The mind is the most important part of the body to be strengthened by education.