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.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

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

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.