We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.