"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 not an angel, I am a woman, and I have a woman's weaknesses."

"The lady with the lamp is a very pretty picture; but I am not a lady with a lamp. I am a ministering angel."

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

"The greatest egotism is to complain of the world."