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

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

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

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.