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

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.

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!

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.