Nursing Is One Of The Fine Arts:

Why Have Women Passion, Intellect, Moral Activity These, Three And A Place In Society Where No One Of The Three Can Be Exercised?

The Very Elements Of What Constitutes Good Nursing Are As Little Understood For The Well As For The Sick. The Same Laws Of Health, Or Of Nursing, For They Are In Reality The Same, Obtain Among The Well As Among The Sick.

[on Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He Was A Most Disagreeable Companion To My Fancy ... His Conversation Was A Procession Of One.

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; For What Is The Having To Do With Dead Canvas Or Dead Marble, Compared With Having To Do With The Living Body, The Temple Of God's Spirit? It Is One Of The Fine Arts: I Had Almost Said, The Finest Of Fine Arts.

Perhaps, If Prematurely We Dismiss Ourselves From This World, All May Even Have To Be Suffered Through Again - The Premature Birth May Not Contribute To The Production Of Another Being, Which Must Be Begun Again From The Beginning.