"The world is a place of infinite possibilities, if only we have the courage to seize them."

"I am a soldier, and I shall do my duty."

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

"The true nurse, like the true patient, has no time for feelings."

"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."