Nursing Is An Art: And If It

No Man, Not Even A Doctor, Ever Gives Any Other Definition Of What A Nurse Should Be Than This-'devoted And Obedient.' This Definition Would Do Just As Well For A Porter. It Might Even Do For A Horse. It Would Not Do For A Policeman.

People Say The Effect Is Only On The Mind. It Is No Such Thing. The Effect Is On The Body, Too. Little As We Know About The Way In Which We Are Affected By Form, By Color, And Light, We Do Know This, That They Have An Actual Physical Effect. Variety Of Form And Brilliancy Of Color In The Objects Presented To Patients, Are Actual Means Of Recovery.

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

Sublime In The Highest Style Of Intellectual Beauty, Intellect Without Effort, Without Suffering... Not A Feature Is Correct – But The Whole Effect Is More Expressive Of Spiritual Grandeur Than Anything I Could Have Imagined. It Makes The Impression Upon One That Thousands Of Voices Do, Uniting In One Unanimous Simultaneous Feeling Of Enthusiasm Or Emotion, Which Is Said To Overcome The Strongest Man.

By Mortifying Vanity We Do Ourselves No Good. It Is The Want Of Interest In Our Life Which Produces It; By Filling Up That Want Of Interest In Our Life We Can Alone Remedy It.