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

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

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.

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.