The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

---

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

---

Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

---

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

---

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

---

The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

---

People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.

---

For the sick it is important to have the best.

---

People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.

---

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

---