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

"Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him."

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

"I am of the opinion that there are very few things which an intelligent mind may not make more intelligible to another."

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."