The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!

The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.