Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

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 attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.