For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

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!

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions

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