The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

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.

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

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

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