Names and knowledge change, the way the turningworld brings color or deep shadows, without a soundeven as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.

As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.

There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.

No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.

Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

-but what people expect can change you in the end.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.