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. Harriet Martineau Read Quote
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. Harriet Martineau Read Quote
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? Harriet Martineau Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. Harriet Martineau Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America. Harriet Martineau Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. Harriet Martineau Read Quote
