I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

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