Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

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

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

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

My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.