Quotes by : Harriet Martineau

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....

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

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?....

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....

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

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

Readers are plentiful thinkers are rare.