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.

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

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

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.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

I can stand out the war with any man.