Religion Was Important To Me. My Family

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.

Asceticism Is The Trifling Of An Enthusiast With His Power, A Puerile Coquetting With His Selfishness Or His Vanity, In The Absence Of Any Sufficiently Great Object To Employ The First Or Overcome The Last.

Perhaps, If Prematurely We Dismiss Ourselves From This World, All May Even Have To Be Suffered Through Again - The Premature Birth May Not Contribute To The Production Of Another Being, Which Must Be Begun Again From The Beginning.

Never Give Nor Take An Excuse.

No Man, Not Even A Doctor, Ever Gives Any Other Definition Of What A Nurse Should Be Than This-'devoted And Obedient.' This Definition Would Do Just As Well For A Porter. It Might Even Do For A Horse. It Would Not Do For A Policeman.