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

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

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

Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

For the sick it is important to have the best.