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

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" I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. "

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

" Question everything. "

" As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them. "

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

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

" I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter. "

" 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. "

" Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe. "

" Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp. "

" I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own. "

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

" There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. "

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