Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

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

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

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

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

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.