do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

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

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

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.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.