Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.