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

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.

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 never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

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.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

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