Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

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.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

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

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852