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

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

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

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