"I have been brought up to be a lady, and I have found it of no use."

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

"I have no fear of death. I have a great fear of not doing my duty."

"I am a woman of forty-three, and I have never had a day's illness in my life."

"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."