I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. |
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. |
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. |
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. |
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. |
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. |
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. |
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. |
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. |
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. |
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. |
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. |