The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.