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

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.

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

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.