I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

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

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.