I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

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

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

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

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

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer