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. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PatientRefusal
It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other? FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE EasyPrudent
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Oneself
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE DevotionMystic
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. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE FineOneself
