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

The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

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

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.