Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

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

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

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

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

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

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

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

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.

There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.

I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch.

The poet should touch our heart by showing his own

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

You take the risk of being rejected.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.