The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.