We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

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.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.