“If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.”

“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”

“Health is the greatest of human blessings.”

“The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.”

“I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.”

“But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.”

“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.”