• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

    Florence Nightingale: I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
    "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.