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

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.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

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

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!