"I am not a philosopher, I am a practical woman."

"I am sure I have a call, though I don't know for what service."

"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."

"The true nurse, like the true patient, has no time for feelings."

"It is not what we add to the world, but what we take away from it that makes us great."