People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. – Maria Mitchell
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. – Maria Mitchell

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. – Maria Mitchell
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. – Maria Mitchell
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! – Maria Mitchell
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. – Maria Mitchell
Something that irritates you and wont let you go. Thats the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. – Source Unknown
I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously – a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too. – Eugene Chadbourne