For The Sick It Is Important To

Macaulay Somewhere Says, That It Is Extraordinary That, Whereas The Laws Of The Motions Of The Heavenly Bodies, Far Removed As They Are From Us, Are Perfectly Well Understood, The Laws Of The Human Mind, Which Are Under Our Observation All Day And Every Day, Are No Better Understood Than They Were Two Thousand Years Ago.

The Very Elements Of What Constitutes Good Nursing Are As Little Understood For The Well As For The Sick. The Same Laws Of Health, Or Of Nursing, For They Are In Reality The Same, Obtain Among The Well As Among The Sick.

Women Never Have A Half-hour In All Their Lives (excepting Before Or After Anybody Is Up In The House) That They Can Call Their Own, Without Fear Of Offending Or Of Hurting Someone. Why Do People Sit Up So Late, Or, More Rarely, Get Up So Early? Not Because The Day Is Not Long Enough, But Because They Have 'no Time In The Day To Themselves.' 1852

Religious Men Are And Must Be Heretics Now- For We Must Not Pray, Except In A "form" Of Words, Made Beforehand- Or Think Of God But With A Prearranged Idea.

Let Whoever Is In Charge Keep This Simple Question In Her Head (not, How Can I Always Do This Right Thing Myself, But) How Can I Provide For This Right Thing To Be Always Done?