The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.

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.