To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

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

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

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.