The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

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

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

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.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

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

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.