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

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

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

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

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.