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.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

I was very limited as a women. Getting the men in the military to see that the medical facilities were unhealthy was very difficult, along with many other things such as getting a good education and also finding a good career.

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.