Quotes by Harriet Martineau

Explore a curated collection of 14 quotes by Harriet Martineau. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of l — Harriet Martineau
[Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] the civilization and t — Harriet Martineau
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. — Harriet Martineau
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. — Harriet Martineau
Who is apt on occasion to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. — Harriet Martineau
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure preparation for tomorro — Harriet Martineau
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. — Harriet Martineau
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefo — Harriet Martineau
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. — Harriet Martineau
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 — Harriet Martineau
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole — Harriet Martineau
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow — Harriet Martineau
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of hum — Harriet Martineau
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other h — Harriet Martineau