“Averages seduce us away from minute observation.”

Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?

Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

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.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

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

People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

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.

At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

Everybody. Somebody would just stick their head in the door and say, “He sounds too Jewish.” Or, “He’s too tough, he’s off-putting. You gotta seduce kids, not scare them out the door.”

The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women.

Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.

Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is.

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.