114 Quotes by Harriet Martineau

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

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

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

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.