It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.

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.

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

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

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.

People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.