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.

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.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.