Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

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.

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

I can stand out the war with any man.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.