"The greatest gift is to give of oneself."

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

"I have lived, and I have loved, and I have suffered, and I have learned. And I have done what I could."

"Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended, at all events, to take in the whole sick population."

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