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

I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

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.

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

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.