“The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth th...” — Maria Mitchell Quote

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

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

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

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.

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.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

I'm not someone who will make a decision in haste and let loneliness decide the wrong partner for me.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.