I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. Maria Mitchell Read Quote
Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines. Maria Mitchell Read Quote
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. Maria Mitchell Read Quote
The love of one’s own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. Maria Mitchell Read Quote
I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian. Maria Mitchell Read Quote
I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. Maria Mitchell Read Quote
I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind. Maria Mitchell Read Quote
I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work. Maria Mitchell Read Quote
