68 Quotes by Maria Mitchell

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

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.

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.