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

Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.