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.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

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

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

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!

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