The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.