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

The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

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

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.