For The Sick It Is Important To

Nursing Is One Of The Fine Arts: I Had Almost Said, The Finest Of Fine Arts.

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.

Macaulay Somewhere Says, That It Is Extraordinary That, Whereas The Laws Of The Motions Of The Heavenly Bodies, Far Removed As They Are From Us, Are Perfectly Well Understood, The Laws Of The Human Mind, Which Are Under Our Observation All Day And Every Day, Are No Better Understood Than They Were Two Thousand Years Ago.

By Mortifying Vanity We Do Ourselves No Good. It Is The Want Of Interest In Our Life Which Produces It; By Filling Up That Want Of Interest In Our Life We Can Alone Remedy It.

Passion, Intellect, Moral Activity - These Three Have Never Been Satisfied In A Woman. In This Cold And Oppressive Conventional Atmosphere, They Cannot Be Satisfied. To Say More On This Subject Would Be To Enter Into The Whole History Of Society, Of The Present State Of Civilisation.