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. - Florence Nightingale

The Church is now more like the Scribes and Pharisees than like Christ... What are now called the "essential doctrines" of the Christian religion he does not even mention.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

"To be "in charge" is certainly not only to carry out the proper measures yourself but to see that every one else does so too; to see that no one either willfully or ignorantly thwarts or prevents such measures. It is neither to do everything yourself nor to appoint a number of people to each duty, but to ensure that each does that duty to which he is appointed."