114 Quotes by Harriet Martineau

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

Biography will never fail. Would that we were all equally secure of a higher matter, – our right of freedom of epistolary speech !

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early...

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work.

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart’s-love for legal prostitution.

It never enters the lady’s head that the wet-nurse’s baby probably dies.

The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, – an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other...