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

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

For the sick it is important to have the best.