Harriet Martineau Quotes

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Harriet Martineau



A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

Harriet Martineau



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



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



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



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.

Harriet Martineau



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

Harriet Martineau