Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
Florence NightingaleTo understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Florence NightingaleUnnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
Florence NightingaleThe only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
Florence NightingaleSublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.
Florence Nightingale