In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

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.

I can stand out the war with any man.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.