Quotes by : Harriet Martineau

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.

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Who is apt on occasion to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness....

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....

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

[Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] the....

Readers are plentiful thinkers are rare.