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

Ignite the mind’s spark to rise the sun in you

A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not. And yet she is spending her life, perhaps, in dreaming of accidental means of unrestrained communion.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel absence of care that can be inflicted on the sick or the well.