Florence Nightingale Quote

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. And, did we even see this, how can we make the difference? How obtain the interest which society declares she does not want, and we cannot want?


Cassandra (1860)


By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our...

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our...

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our...

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our...