Harriet Martineau Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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 land.”

“We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.”

“A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.”

“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.”

“If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.”

“Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.”

“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? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?”

“For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.”