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

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.

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

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.