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

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions

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.

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

Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.