"You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis & Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of m…"

"The martyr sacrifices herself (himself in a few instances) entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for she (or he) m…"

"Women crave for being loved, not for loving. They scream out at you for sympathy all day long, they are incapable of …"

"What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine — they are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysent…"

"I agree as to the doubtful value of competitive examination. The qualities which you really want, viz., self-control,…"

"Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, …"

"I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of me…"

"No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this — "devoted and obedien…"

"Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either mal…"

"Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsu…"