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!

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

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

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

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

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.