Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
Maria Mitchell

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

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Maria Mitchell

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.
Maria Mitchell

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

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

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
Maria Mitchell

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

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell

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

We especially need imagination in science.
Maria Mitchell

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell

We travel to learn; and 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

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and to-day a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.
Maria Mitchell