Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.

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

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?