Never Give Nor Take An Excuse.

Nursing Is An Art: And If It Is To Be Made An Art, It Requires An Exclusive Devotion As Hard A Preparation As Any Painter's Or Sculptor's Work.

What The Horrors Of War Are, No One Can Imagine. They Are Not Wounds And Blood And Fever, Spotted And Low, Or Dysentery, Chronic And Acute, Cold And Heat And Famine. They Are Intoxication, Drunken Brutality, Demoralization And Disorder On The Part Of The Inferior... Jealousies, Meanness, Indifference, Selfish Brutality On The Part Of The Superior.

Women Have No Sympathy And My Experience Of Women Is Almost As Large As Europe.

Religious Men Are And Must Be Heretics Now- For We Must Not Pray, Except In A "form" Of Words, Made Beforehand- Or Think Of God But With A Prearranged Idea.

I Never Lose An Opportunity Of Urging A Practical Beginning, However Small...