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!

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

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.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

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