"The nurses are all tipsy, and I am the only sober one."

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

"I am a woman who has no time for anything but business."

"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."

"Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended, at all events, to take in the whole sick population."