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.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

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

Never give nor take an excuse.

Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.

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

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.