A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
From Florence Nightingale
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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.
Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
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