For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...