114 Quotes by Harriet Martineau

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

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

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

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

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.