"The world is not a school to teach us what we want to learn, but a school to teach us what we ought to learn."

"The very best thing in life is to have a clear purpose."

"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."

"The only way to do good is to do it yourself."

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm."