God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard seed germinates and roots itself.
The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe how to observe what symptoms indicate improvement what the reverse which are of importance which are of none which are the evidence of neglect and of what kind of neglect.
