A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
- Harriet Martineau Quote

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.
- Harriet Martineau Quote

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?
- Harriet Martineau Quote

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
- Harriet Martineau Quote

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
- Harriet Martineau Quote

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
- Harriet Martineau Quote

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
- Harriet Martineau Quote

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
- Harriet Martineau Quote

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
- Harriet Martineau Quote

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.
- Harriet Martineau Quote

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

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