For the sick it is important to have the best.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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.

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

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.