"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm."

"The world is not a school to teach us what we want to learn, but a school to teach us what we ought to learn."

"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."

"I am not a genius, but I am a hard worker."

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