Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

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.