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

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

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

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

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.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.