If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.