Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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

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