"I am not a romantic, I am a realist."

"The amount of good which a woman can do to a man is not by 'keeping house' for him, but by giving him a share in her own intellectual life."

"The greatest egotism is to be constantly thinking of one's own character."

"If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing."

"I am not a bit afraid of my own death, but I am very much afraid of my patients' deaths."