I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

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.

The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

For the sick it is important to have the best.