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

There is a God, and he is good, I say to myself. I try to increase my trust in this, my only article of creed.

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

The great gain would be freedom of thought. Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop. When they do this, when they come to truth through their investigations, when doubt leads them to discovery, the truth which they get will be theirs, and their minds will work on and on unfettered.