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.

You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

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

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.