"Unnecessary noise is the cruelest absence of care that can be inflicted on the sick or well."

"I have lived, and I have loved, and I have suffered, and I have learned. And I have done what I could."

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

"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is that they are always in a muddle."

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