The most important pratical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe-how to observe-what symptoms indicate improvement-wha… - Florence Nightingale

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master. The governess is to have every one of God's gifts; she is to do that which the mother herself is incapable of doing; but our son must not degrade himself by marrying the governess, nor our daughter the tutor, though she might marry the medical man.

I have had a larger responsibility of human lives than ever man or woman had before. And I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took an excuse. Yes, I do see the difference now between me and other men. When a disaster happens, I act and they make excuses.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.