"The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm."

"I can only say, that if I had had a free choice, I should have been a man."

"I am of the opinion that there are very few things which an intelligent mind may not make more intelligible to another."

"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."

"I am a woman of facts, not of fancies."