Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

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

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.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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

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.

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.