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.

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.