"The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed."

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm."

"I am much afraid of God, but I am not afraid of anything else."

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

"If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing."