"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm."

"The world is a great school, and we are all its pupils."

"Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity—these three—and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?"

"The craving for sympathy from others is a great weakness, for it makes us dependent upon them."

"I am a woman who has no time for anything but business."