114 Quotes by Harriet Martineau

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man’s spirit.

A Queen, or a Prime Minister’s secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible...

We do not believe in immortality because we can’t prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, – in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.