But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?
Maria MitchellDo not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
Maria MitchellI would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
Maria MitchellI 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.
Maria Mitchell