Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.