Never Give Nor Take An Excuse.

The Family Uses People, Not For What They Are, Nor For What They Are Intended To Be, But For What It Wants Them For- Its Own Uses. It Thinks Of Them Not As What God Has Made Them, But As The Something Which It Has Arranged That They Shall Be.

If I Could Give You Information Of My Life It Would Be To Show How A Woman Of Very Ordinary Ability Has Been Led By God In Strange And Unaccustomed Paths To Do In His Service What He Has Done In Her. And If I Could Tell You All, You Would See How God Has Done All, And I Nothing. I Have Worked Hard, Very Hard, That Is All; And I Have Never Refused God Anything.

Nursing Is One Of The Fine Arts: I Had Almost Said, The Finest Of Fine Arts.

In A Sick-room Or A Bed-room There Should Never Be Shutters Shut.

Women Never Have A Half-hour In All Their Lives (excepting Before Or After Anybody Is Up In The House) That They Can Call Their Own, Without Fear Of Offending Or Of Hurting Someone. Why Do People Sit Up So Late, Or, More Rarely, Get Up So Early? Not Because The Day Is Not Long Enough, But Because They Have 'no Time In The Day To Themselves.' 1852