The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.

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

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

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

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.