Quotes by : Maria Mitchell

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular....

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort,....

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than....

Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone....