Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

He looked at the book, took my name, and consulted his records. Then he informed me I had been lost at sea and was dead. Under the circumstances, he could not possibly give me any money... Even the fact that he was dealing with someone who had been dead for several days failed to awaken interest in his official heart.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.