It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.

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

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

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The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

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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.

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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

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