All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.

People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.

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

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.