"The best way to get things done is to stop talking and start doing."

"The world is put back by every mistake and advanced by every truth."

"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 very shy person, and I have no desire to be known."

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