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

"Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity—these three—and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?"

"I have no fear of death. I have a great fear of not doing my duty."

"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."

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