The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.