For the sick it is important to have the best.

People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk -- you secure him a bad night.

A global flu pandemic would kill between seven million and 200 million, depending on which scientist or medical journal you read.

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death...For years and years, I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Can the word be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

I was very limited as a women. Getting the men in the military to see that the medical facilities were unhealthy was very difficult, along with many other things such as getting a good education and also finding a good career.

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

Passion, intellect, moral activity -- these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

It is very well to say be prudent, be careful, try to know each other. But how are you to know each other?