I Can Stand Out The War With

All Disease, At Some Period Or Other Of Its Course, Is More Or Less A Reparative Process, Not Necessarily Accompanied With Suffering: An Effort Of Nature To Remedy A Process Of Poisoning Or Of Decay, Which Has Taken Place Weeks, Months, Sometimes Years Beforehand, Unnoticed.

Nursing Is An Art: And If It Is To Be Made An Art, It Requires An Exclusive Devotion As Hard A Preparation As Any Painter's Or Sculptor's Work.

People Say The Effect Is Only On The Mind. It Is No Such Thing. The Effect Is On The Body, Too. Little As We Know About The Way In Which We Are Affected By Form, By Color, And Light, We Do Know This, That They Have An Actual Physical Effect. Variety Of Form And Brilliancy Of Color In The Objects Presented To Patients, Are Actual Means Of Recovery.

I Think One's Feelings Waste Themselves In Words; They Ought All To Be Distilled Into Actions Which Bring Results.

I Can Stand Out The War With Any Man.