"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

"I am not a philosopher, I am a practical woman."

"The greatest misfortune of mankind is that they do not know how to be happy."

"If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing."

"The world is not a place to be enjoyed, but a place to be improved."