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

"Oh, for some work in the world! It has been given to me to suffer and to serve."

"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."

"I am a woman of facts, not of fancies."

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