Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

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.

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

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.