"Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any pa…"

"Women crave for being loved, not for loving. They scream out at you for sympathy all day long, they are incapable of …"

"No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this — "devoted and obedien…"

"I agree as to the doubtful value of competitive examination. The qualities which you really want, viz., self-control,…"

"Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, …"

"I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of me…"

"What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine — they are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysent…"

"Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either mal…"

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick n…"

"The martyr sacrifices herself (himself in a few instances) entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for she (or he) m…"