“Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.”

“Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.”

“Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.”

“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”