"The lady with the lamp is a very pretty picture; but I am not a lady with a lamp. I am a ministering angel."

"I am a woman of facts, not of fancies."

"The world is not a school to teach us what we want to learn, but a school to teach us what we ought to learn."

"Unnecessary noise is the cruelest absence of care that can be inflicted on the sick or well."

"I am not a bit afraid of my own death, but I am very much afraid of my patients' deaths."