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

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

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

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

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

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.

May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!