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

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

Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

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

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.