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

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

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.

You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

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

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

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