We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master. The governess is to have every one of God's gifts; she is to do that which the mother herself is incapable of doing; but our son must not degrade himself by marrying the governess, nor our daughter the tutor, though she might marry the medical man.


Cassandra (1860)

Florence Nightingale Quotes

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master....

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master....

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master....

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master....