Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

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

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

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

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.

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 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.

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

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