114 Quotes by Harriet Martineau

Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope that anything that could be said in books would work a cure. If the floors of boarding-houses, and the decks of steam-boats, and the carpets of the Capitol, do not sicken the Americans into a reform; if the warnings of physicians are of no avail, what remains to be said? I dismiss the nauseous subject.

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

The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles ...

I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.

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

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

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

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.