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

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!

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.