 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian. |
| The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study. |
| 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. |
| It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. |
| Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. |
| There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. |
| I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter. |
| I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. |
| I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. |
| 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. |
| Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. |
