Quotes by : Harriet Martineau

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific....

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over....

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

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

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual?....

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession....

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage....

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure preparation....

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.