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

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

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

When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.