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

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

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

The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.